From the Big Bang to today, science through history stories, which is so easy to read it becomes both fun and compulsive. With the addition of some glorious illustrations, it becomes even more entertaining and a stunning gift.
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can’t contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand 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. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
'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
'A thoroughly enjoyable, as well as educational, experience. Nobody who reads it will ever look at the world in the same way again' William Hartston Daily Express
The amount of ground covered is truly impressive…it's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science' John Waller Guardian
‘Brims with strange and amazing facts…destined to become a modern classic of science writing’ Ed Regis New York Times Book Review
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About Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. He settled in England in 1977, and lived for many years with his English wife and four children in North Yorkshire. He and his family then moved to America for a few years but have now returned to the UK. He is the bestselling author of The Lost Continent, Mother Tongue, Neither Here Nor There, Made in America, Notes From a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, Notes From a Big Country, Down Under and, most recently, A Short History of Nearly Everything. He is also the author of the bestselling African Diary (a charity book for CARE International).
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can’t contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand 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. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
A Short History of Nearly Everything features in the following genres: History, Non-Fiction Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, History and Archaeology, Recommendations
A Short History of Nearly Everything is available in , Paperback, Hardback, CD-Audio
A Short History of Nearly Everything was written by Bill Bryson and published by Transworld Publishers Ltd
A Short History of Nearly Everything has 624 pages
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