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 was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling
books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small
Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of
the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island
was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed work
of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the
Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and is the biggest selling
non-fiction book of the 21st century. The Body- A Guide for
Occupants was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize
and is an international bestseller.
Bill Bryson was Chancellor of Durham University 2005-2011. He is an
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England.
Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.
*Economist*
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*
Impressive in his terse concreteness ... Hugely readable and never
obfuscating
*The Sunday Times*
This most enjoyable of books ... A travelogue of science, with a
witty, engaging, and well-informed guide
*The Times*
Bill Bryson has an unmatched gift for explaining the most difficult
subjects in the clearest possible way. If, like me, your brain
tends to go numb when faced with terms like plate tectonics,
genome, relativity theory, big bang and particle physics, then it
is more than likely that A Short History of Nearly Everything is
the cure you have always been looking for...It deserves to sell as
many copies as there are protons contained in the full stop that
ends this review (at least 500,000,000,000)
*Mail on Sunday*
Lucid, thoughtful and, above all, entertaining
*The Scotsman*
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