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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage (2 July 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0099492989
ISBN-13: 978-0099492986
Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 1.4 x 19.7 cm

Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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'Hailed as the new Bill Bryson, he in fact a writer of considerably more substance' Irish Times

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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, he finds himself inspired to travel back to the land before now, experiencing the hardships and homespun pleasures enjoyed and endured by Moores gone by.

The journey that follows takes him through the world of historical re-enactment, sitting at the 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, from Roman legionary, Tudor master to Yankee spy, sharing 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.

I Believe in Yesterday is 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.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Great idea and very amusing 13 Jun 2011

By Neil

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I had forgotten how funny Tim Moore is . This is an interesting, informative and laugh out loud journey through 700 years of living history. The authour joins a french Roman legion fighting Gauls , a medievil fortress in Germany and several other areas of history. The American Civil War re-enactment is taken so seriously I imagine it is as near to time travel as humanly possible. I still laugh when I think of him being forced to read Shakespear to a group of grim US Civil War generals and civilians by oil lamp in a crowded tent.

I recommend this book and would rate it as high as his other books

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amusing rather than funny; not his best 1 April 2012

By Captain Kirk

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Well, it gave me the odd chuckle, but its hardly hilarious. the author spends time with various historical reenactmment groups, where nothing ever seems to happen, and it all seems pretty pointless. he tries to work up some false anxiety about getting hurt in mock fights, not getting his lines right and other boring trivia. i thought i might learn about how people actually lived in those times, but no - nothing about how they used to extract iron ore, for example. how accurate the descriptions of these reenactment clubs are i dont know - if he exaggerated to make it sound more interesting then they must be deadly dull indeed.

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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful

With a pinch of salt... 30 Nov 2011

By A. Ball

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While an undoubtably an amusing tale, this book is not without a lot of poetic licence. Having seen a number of the described re-enactment societies in the flesh, and participated in a number myself, I can categorically state that the author is talking a load of crap.

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