num_pages: 687
description: 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 civilisation - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
language: English
title: A Short History of Nearly Everything
titlecomplete: A Short History of Nearly Everything
genres: Historical, Audiobook, Popular Science, History, Science, Philosophy, Physics, Humor, Unfinished, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 374663
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: EU Descartes Prize
category: science communication, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: J. A. Hollon palkinto
publisher: Black Swan