A Short History of Nearly Everything (Audio-CD)
Author(s): Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to find out 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. His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out?On his travels through time and space, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before. -A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to find out 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. His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out?On his travels through time and space, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
General Information
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- : Random House Children's Publishers UK
- : Corgi Audio
- : 0.198
- : 30 September 2003
- : 124mm X 144mm X 24mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Bill Bryson
- : OO
- : 1
- : 509
More About The Product
The incomparable Bill Bryson travels through time and space to introduce us to the world, the universe and everything.
Winner of Descartes Prize for Science Communication 2005.
"'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'" -- Peter Atkins 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'" -- William Hartston Daily Express "'Brims with strange and amazing facts...destined to become a modern classic of science writing'" -- Ed Regis 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).'" -- Craig Brown Mail on Sunday "'The very book I have been looking for most of my life...Trunkloads of information, amazing stories and extraordinary personalities'" -- Christopher Matthew Daily Mail
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. He settled in England in 1977, and lived for many years with his English wife and four children in North Yorkshire. He and his family then moved to America for a few years but have now returned to the UK. He is the bestselling author of The Lost Continent, Mother Tongue, Neither Here Nor There, Made in America, Notes From a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, Notes From a Big Country, Down Under and, most recently, A Short History of Nearly Everything. He is also the author of the bestselling African Diary (a charity book for CARE International).