All The Time In The World A Book Of Hours Jessica Kerwin Jenkins by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins 9780385535410, 9780385535427, 0385535414, 0385535422 instant download after payment.

All the Time in the World takes its cue from an iconic component of medieval life, the book of hours, which prescribed certain readings & contemplations for certain parts of the day throughout the year. Divided into more than seventy-five entries, All the Time in the World is brimming with witty bons mots, interesting etymologies, & arresting anecdotes encompassing an array of cultures & eras. 

Subjects covered include the daylong ceremony of laying a royal Elizabethan tablecloth; the radicalization of sartorial chic in 1890s Paris; Nostradamus’s belief in the aphrodisiac power of jam; the sensuous practice of sniffing incense in fifteenth-century Japan; the American fascination with flaming desserts; the short-lived artistic discipline of “lumia,” or visual music; the evolution of coffee from a religious ritual to a forbidden delight in the Middle East; Henriette d’Angeville’s fearless & wine-fueled ascent of Mont Blanc; the elaborate treasure hunts concocted by London’s Bright Young Things; & the musical revolution known as bebop. An antidote to the contemporary cult of “getting things done,” All the Time in the World revives forgotten treasures of the past while inspiring a passion for good living in the present.

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Jessica Kerwin Jenkins is the author of Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights & All the Time in the World: A Book of Hours. She began her career in New York, writing for Women’s Wear Daily & for W magazine, later becoming W’s European editor in Paris. She writes for Vogue & lives on the coast of Maine.