Bill Bryson is one
of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers.
In A Short History of Nearly Everything, he
takes his ultimate journey–into the most intriguing
and consequential questions that science seeks to answer.
It’s a dazzling quest, the intellectual odyssey
of a lifetime, as this insatiably curious writer attempts
to understand everything that has transpired from the
Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Or, as the author
puts it, “…how we went from there being
nothing at all to there being something, and then how
a little of that something turned into us, and also
what happened in between and since.” This is,
in short, a tall order.
