A Short History of Nearly Everything A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Short History of Nearly Everything

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Publisher Description

One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trailwell, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understandand, if possible, answerthe oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2003
May 6
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
560
Pages
PUBLISHER
Crown
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
9.2
MB

Customer Reviews

sdrparks ,

Wow

I cannot believe how well Bryson brings details of history to light while keeping the prose entertaining. This is easily THE best nonfiction piece I have ever encountered. If you have never experienced Bryson's work, start here.

sorwake ,

AMAZING

This book is so good, it hooks you so quickly and reels you in with an idea of “how do we make a science textbook readable to a normal person?” Another Bill Bryson masterpiece. 5 stars no question.

Bestdrewsmom ,

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Wonderful!!

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