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A Short History of Nearly Everything

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Featuring a special introduction written for the audiobook edition and read by the author

A Radio 4 Book Club Selection.

The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies.

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.

Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. As a result, A Short History of Nearly Everything reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.


'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.' Economist


'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.' Guardian


'A travelogue of science, with a witty, engaging, and well-informed guide' The Times


©2003 Bill Bryson (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Critics Review

Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.
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'
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'
Daily Express
'Brims with strange and amazing facts...destined to become a modern classic of science writing'
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).'
Mail on Sunday
'The very book I have been looking for most of my life...Trunkloads of information, amazing stories and extraordinary personalities'
Daily Mail
'The amount of ground covered is truly impressive...it's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science'
Guardian
Author Bill Bryson
Narrator Bill Bryson
Duration 5 hours and 47 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781407083667
Format Audiobook
Publisher Transworld
Genre Chemistry, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, History of science, Physics, Popular science
Availability AU, GB, IE

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