Historian Theodore Zeldin writes about the history of feelings, habits, emotions and perceptions. He views the past from a new and fresh perspective, investigating the feelings of human beings through time, from the Vikings and Aztecs to contemporary hypochondriacs, and the problems of ordinary life. "Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non- fiction I have read in more than a decade" Maggie Gee, >Daily Telegraph<. From the author of >A History of French Passions< and >The French<. Minerva.