The incomparable Bill Bryson travels through time and space to introduce us to the world, the universe and everything in this groundbreaking book, the best selling popular science book of the 21st century.
Bill Bryson's bestselling travel books include The Lost
Continent and Notes from a Small Island, which in a
national poll was voted the book that best represents Britain.
Another travel book, A Walk in the Woods, has become a major
film starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson. His new
number one Sunday Times bestseller is The Road to Little
Dribbling- More Notes from a Small Island.
His acclaimed book on the history of science, A Short History of
Nearly Everything, won the Royal Society's Aventis Prize as
well as the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary
award. He has written books on language, on Shakespeare, on
history, and on his own childhood in the hilarious memoir The
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. His last critically
lauded bestsellers were At Home- a Short History of Private
Life, and One Summer- America 1927
Bill Bryson was born in the American Midwest, and now lives in the
UK. A former Chancellor of Durham University, he was President of
the Campaign to Protect Rural England for five years, and is an
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society.
Bill Bryson was born in 1951 in Des Moines, Iowa, and grew up
there, but spent most of his adult life in Britain. He worked for
the Bournemouth Evening Echo, Financial Weekly and
The Times, and was one of the founding journalists on the
Independent. His books include Mother Tongue and
Troublesome Words (revised edition, 2001), both published by
Penguin, and the travel books The Lost Continent, Neither
Here Nor There, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the
Woods, Notes from a Big Country and Down Under. He now
lives in the United States with his wife and four children.
"Mr Bryson has a natural gift for clear and vivid expression. I
doubt that a better book for the layman about the findings of
modern science has been written" * Sunday Telegraph *
"A fascinating idea, and I can't think of many writers, other than
Bryson, who would do it this well. It's the sort of book I would
have devoured as a teenager. It might well turn unsuspecting young
readers into scientists. And the famous, slightly cynical humour is
always there" * Evening Standard *
"A genuinely useful and readable book. There is a phenomenal amount
of fascinating information packed between its covers ... 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 *
"Of course, there are people much better qualified than Bill Bryson
to attempt a project of this magnitude. None of them, however, can
write fluent Brysonese, which, as pretty much the entire Western
reading public now knows, is an appealing mixture of
self-deprecation, wryness and punnery" * Spectator *
"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 *
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