PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Robert Muchembled is a writer and Honorary Professor at the University of Paris.
Mr. Muchembled's fine-grained and evocative research shows how eloquent smell can be in helping us understand the past. The Wall Street Journal In this fascinating study, with unexpected twists and turns, Robert Muchembled explores the opaque topic of smell as if he were discovering a new continent that is as rich as it is mysterious. Historia A rigorous, rich and lively book. Les Cahiers de Science & Vie Smells is part scholarly treatise, part fascinating popular history, dashed through with a soupcon of wit. Foreword Reviews Smells's melange of the scholarly with the scatalogical makes for a dazzling, lusty romp through European history. Foreword Reviews This lively book combines scholarship with readability and ranges from plague to perfume, from the stink of cities to jokes about smelly people. Its interesting examples should appeal to an equally wide range of readers. Peter Burke, University of Cambridge
