num_pages: 688
description: Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveler, 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 the civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, reveling 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, Philosophy, Science, Nonfiction, Physics, Humor, Audiobook, Popular Science, Unfinished, History
ratings_count: 374662
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