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’
Daily Mail

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

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’
TLS

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

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