Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.
His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out?
On his travels through time and space, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
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Economist
'A travelogue of science, with a witty, engaging, and well-informed guide who loves his patch and is desperate to share its delights with us'
Peter Atkins
The Times
'A thoroughly enjoyable, as well as educational, experience. Nobody who reads it will ever look at the world around them in the same way again'
William Hartston
Daily Express
'Brims with strange and amazing facts...destined to become a modern classic of science writing'
Ed Regis
New York Times Book Review
'It deserves to sell as many copies as there are protons in the full stop that ends this review (at least 500,000,000,000).'
Craig Brown
Mail on Sunday
'The very book I have been looking for most of my life...Trunkloads of information, amazing stories and extraordinary personalities'
Christopher Matthew
Daily Mail
'The amount of ground covered is truly impressive...it's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science'
John Waller
Guardian