A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson, Richard Matthews

eAudio - 2006

THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.“Brims with strange and amazing facts . . . destined to become a modern classic of science writing.”—The New York TimesIn A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. 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. Taki...ng 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... more