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Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear

Want to know how to garden with lobsters? How to sober up? Grow a beard? Or, simply, how to make a perfect cheesy omelette? Look no further than Ask the Past. From medieval headache remedies to Renaissance pick-up lines, Ask the Past brings you advice that will make you laugh out loud and shake your head in amazement. Here are the answers to the questions you`ve always wanted to ask – `How do I impress my boss?` or `How do I put out a fire` – and some that you didn`t know you needed to. Brimming with insight and con brio zest, and illustrated with charming images from rare books, Ask the Past offers a surprising vision of the past, together with a hilarious menu of solutions to the knotty problems of the present -like how to kill a snake with a radish!