A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union's top literary prize) are among Bill Bryson's best-selling novels. From 2005 until 2011, he was chancellor of Durham University, England's third oldest university, and he is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society.
In A Short History of Nearly Everything, the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, one of the world's most beloved writers, embarks on his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and insoluble issues that science strives to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson hiked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he faced some of Australia's most dangerous fauna. Now, in his largest work- A Short History of Nearly Everything, he faces his greatest challenge: understanding—and, if possible, answering—the oldest, most profound questions people have ever posed about the cosmos and ourselves.
Bryson aims to understand how we went from nothing to being us by exploring everything from the Big Bang to the emergence of civilisation. To that goal, he has been to the offices, laboratories, and field camps of some of the world's most advanced (and frequently obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians. He's read (or attempted to read) their books, bugged them with questions, and apprenticed himself to their brilliant minds. This quest is documented in A Short History of Nearly Everything, which is a sometimes profound, sometimes humorous, and always brilliantly clear and fascinating voyage through the realms of human knowledge as only Bill Bryson can express it. Science has never been more interesting or enjoyable.
Author: Bill Bryson
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