false 3149234 2 An odyssey through 2,000 years of filth and fury, where men were men, the nights were black, the world was your outside toilet and everything tasted faintly of leeks.<br><br>In 1989, Tim Moore moved into the last house in Chiswick with an outside toilet. Intrigued by a subsequent encounter with an elderly former resident, and shamed to confess the phobic haste with which he demolished this facility, he finds himself inspired to travel back to the land before now, experiencing the horny-handed hardships and homespun pleasures enjoyed and endured by Moores gone by. <br><br>The journey that follows takes him through the world of historical re-enactment, sitting at the bare and grubby feet of retromaniacs who have seen their future in the past, and learning their singular ways. Living on bramble leaves, Johnny cake and porridge, Moore travels from the Iron Age to the Steam Age. He shares straw beds and daft hats with period obsessives driven by socio-historical curiosity, disillusionment with the pampered fecklessness of the modern world, or a simple nostalgia for campfires, flatulence and brutality. <br><br>Along the way he meets living historians for whom authenticity means pulling their own teeth out and dyeing outfits in urine, and those who stride back through time with a Nokia and a packet of fags stuffed down their codpiece. 3180769 25 11 2008 I Believe in Yesterday total:3|5:1|4:0|3:2|2:0|1:0| 3 11 11 1 3149234 0224077813 9780224077811 3 1 3.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3149234.I_Believe_in_Yesterday 3 0 false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 18:36:24 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 18:45:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3149234 0224077813 9780224077811 3 1 3.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3149234.I_Believe_in_Yesterday 5 0 false Fri Nov 06 11:10:34 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 01:44:43 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 11:10:34 -0800 2009 3149234 0224077813 9780224077811 3 1 3.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3149234.I_Believe_in_Yesterday 0 0 false Sun Aug 30 06:54:55 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 06:54:58 -0700 2009 3149234 0224077813 9780224077811 3 1 3.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3149234.I_Believe_in_Yesterday 0 0 false Sun Jul 12 15:22:41 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 14:53:53 -0700 2009 3149234 0224077813 9780224077811 3 1 3.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3149234.I_Believe_in_Yesterday 0 0 false Fri Jun 05 16:59:23 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 16:59:23 -0700 2009 3149234 0224077813 9780224077811 3 1 3.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3149234.I_Believe_in_Yesterday 3 0 false Tue May 26 18:35:34 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 18:35:34 -0700 2009 3149234 0224077813 9780224077811 3 1 3.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3149234.I_Believe_in_Yesterday 0 0 false Sat Mar 28 13:30:59 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 13:30:59 -0700 2009 3149234 0224077813 9780224077811 3 1 3.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3149234.I_Believe_in_Yesterday 0 0 false Thu Mar 26 12:43:07 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 12:43:07 -0700 2009 3149234 0224077813 9780224077811 3 1 3.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3149234.I_Believe_in_Yesterday 0 0 false Mon Mar 09 14:14:18 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 14:14:32 -0700 2009 3149234 0224077813 9780224077811 3 1 3.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3149234.I_Believe_in_Yesterday 0 0 false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 04:23:46 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 18:21:31 -0800 2008 3149234 0224077813 9780224077811 3 1 3.67 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3149234.I_Believe_in_Yesterday 0 0 false Fri Dec 19 05:23:03 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 05:23:03 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3149234