A Short History of Nearly Everything
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Featuring a special introduction written for the audiobook edition and read by the author
A Radio 4 Book Club Selection.
The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies.
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.
Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. As a result, A Short History of Nearly Everything reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.' Economist
'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.' Guardian
'A travelogue of science, with a witty, engaging, and well-informed guide' The Times
©2003 Bill Bryson (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
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The approach includes not only a description of current hypotheses but also a telling of how they came to be formulated and a short bio of those involved.
Some may consider its views a bit biased in favour of the Anglosphere, but it is still international in outlook. The fact that it was written in 2003 makes it a bit dated for certain elements but does not reduce its pertinence inordinately.
The audio version is narrated with expertise and gusto by the author himself.
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Now, I'm really dissapointed by this audio book because it is edited. My paperback is the one with the same cover as shown in this audiobook and whole paragraphs have been removed. Maybe the main ideas are still there but I was looking for the whole thing to listen to while on my daily walk to get out from behind my computer since I've been working from home for a year now due ro covid.
I must admit, I therefore stopped listening and have only listened to the first 5 minutes. And although reading any book by Bill Bryson feels like listening to an old friend you havent seen in a while telling you his stories in front of a nice crackling fireplace with hot cocoa, listening him read his book was very underwhelming and it felt like my 10 year old reading his science lesson...
Edited version of the book
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