Toilets of the WorldPowder room, comfort station, privy, loo, dunny the infinite variety of names we invent for this universal necessity, the toilet, is matched by an extraordinary variety of designs worldwide, from miniature log cabins in the Canadian wilderness to state-of-the-art cubicles in Japan, and from huts on stilts in the Caribbean to solar-powered sanitary ware in New Zealand. This light-hearted but highly informative photographic journey reveals the idiosyncrasy and inventiveness that characterize the construction of the humble toilet around the globe. Along the way, the reader encounters every possible permutation, from the traditional English 'thunderbox' to the Swazi thatched 'beehive' hut, and discovers the minute but fascinating cultural and historical differences that can make our travels to other countries so enjoyable. |
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America ancient Andean areas Australia bathroom Beijing Belgium bowl bucket building built Canada USA century chamber pot cities clean close stool Colca Canyon colour cubicle culture decorated desert door Dunny England entrance facilities Falcon Waterfree family toilet floor flush toilet Gladstone Pottery Museum History of Toilets hole India inside installed Island Johannesburg Gauteng Khajuraho Khajuraho Madhya Pradesh Kuna lady latrines Lobamba longdrop Madhya Pradesh men's room modern Morna nightclub North American outhouse Pablo Escobar Gaviria Panama Park pay toilets pee tree pipe plumbing porcelain privy public toilet PÚBLICO Rastplatz restaurant RESTROOM Road roof running water rural San Blas Archipelago sanitation SERVICIOS side South Africa South Wales squat toilet stall steel Street Sulabh Sulabh International tank Thailand Thomas Crapper throughout thunderbox toilet paper toilet seat Toilets of Europe tourist town trough Turkey urinals Victorian Villeroy & Boch visitors wall washroom waste women Zealand प्रसाधन