Best-selling popular science book of the 21st Century

‘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’

‘I doubt that a better book for the layman about the findings of modern science has been written’

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. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, it is the biggest-selling popular science book of the twenty-first century, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.

‘Represents a wonderful education, and all schools would be better places if it were the core science reader on the curriculum’

‘A truly remarkable achievement . . . a bravura performance, which will give much pleasure’

‘A travelogue of science, with a witty, engaging, and well-informed guide’

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BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

‘A travelogue of science, with a witty, engaging, and well-informed guide’

Bill Bryson

A Journey Through Space and Time