A Short History Of Nearly Everything Audiobook

A short history of nearly everything is bill bryson s quest to find out 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.

A short history of nearly everything audiobook. A book with the title a short history of nearly everything can t be written by any other sort of person. Science has never been more involving or entertaining. Science has never been more involving or entertaining. A short history of nearly everything is bill bryson s quest to understand everything that has happened from the big bang to the rise of civilization.

It has a rating of 4 2 star review on goodreads. The publishing date of the book is february 4 2003. His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us and see if there isn t some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.

He takes subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us like geology chemistry and particle physics and aims to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be. A short history of nearly everything is 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. Featuring a special introduction written for the audiobook edition and read by the author. A radio 4 book club selection.

A short history of nearly everything is bill bryson s fascinating and humorous quest to understand everything that has happened from the big bang to the rise of civilization. The book is categorized in non fiction popular science genre. The hardcover printed edition weighs in at 478 pages not including notes or index and the audiobook runs to almost 18 hours and a very enjoyable 18 hours they are. A short history of nearly everything is 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.

Of course even at ten times that length he can t talk about everything which is why the book is about nearly everything. He takes subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us like geology chemistry and particle physics and aims to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us and see if there isn t some way to render them.