One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers
takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and
intractable questions that science seeks to
answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In
A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most
lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest
book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand --
and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we
have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as
territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of
civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from
there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end,
he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most
advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists,
anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their
offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or
tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions,
apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short
History of Nearly Everythingis the record of
this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny,
and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the
realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render
it. Science has never been more involving or
entertaining.
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