A short history of nearly everything

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, it is the biggest-selling popular science book of the twenty-first century, and reveals the world, in a way most of us have never seen it before.

‘The very book I have been looking for most of my life… Bryson wears his knowledge with aplomb and a lot of very good jokes’ –Daily Mail

‘I doubt that a better book for the layman about the findings of modern science has been written’ –Sunday Telegraph

‘Represents a wonderful education, and all schools would be better places if it were the core science reader on the curriculum’ –TLS

‘A truly remarkable achievement… a bravura performance, which will give much pleasure’ –Nature

‘A travelogue of science, with a witty, engaging, and well-informed guide’ –The Times                                            A short history of nearly everything                                                                                                                                     Bill Bryson