“In A Short History of Nearly Everything, the famed and much beloved writer Bill Bryson confronts his greatest challenge; to understand – and if possible, answer – the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. To that end he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, paleontologists, physicists, astronomers, anthropologists and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories and field camps. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest and it is a profound, funny, supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it.”
A Short History of Nearly Everything is a book that is summed up perfectly by it’s title. I really enjoyed reading throught the dialogue that Bill Bryson has with different experts. Looking at some of the hardest, yet most fundemental questions that man has asked, Bill Bryson tackles it head on by research and a lot of conversation. There are a couple of chapters that I have held pretty loosely as theory. The book is good, and not all jolly, as it has a more serious side with talk of super – volcanoes and extinctions and the realities of the changing nature of our planet. There are several laugh out loud and revelationary moments in the book that make it well worth the read!!Read the review on amazon
