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About the Book
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, revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
CONTENTS
Cover
About the Book
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Map
Introduction
I: Lost in the Cosmos
1. How to Build a Universe
2. Welcome to the Solar System
3. The Reverend Evans’s Universe
II: The Size of the Earth
4. The Measure of Things
5. The Stone-Breakers
6. Science Red in Tooth and Claw
7. Elemental Matters
III: A New Age Dawns
8. Einstein’s Universe
9. The Mighty Atom
10. Getting the Lead Out
11. Muster Mark’s Quarks
12. The Earth Moves
IV: Dangerous Planet
13. Bang!
14. The Fire Below
15. Dangerous Beauty
V: Life Itself
16. Lonely Planet
17. Into the Troposphere
18. The Bounding Main
19. The Rise of Life
20. Small World
21. Life Goes On
22. Goodbye to All That
23. The Richness of Being
24. Cells
25. Darwin’s Singular Notion
26. The Stuff of Life
VI: The Road to Us
27. Ice Time
28. The Mysterious Biped
29. The Restless Ape
30. Goodbye
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Also by Bill Bryson
Copyright
To Meghan and Chris. Welcome.
 
 
The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was thinking of keeping a diary: ‘I don’t intend to publish. I am merely going to record the facts for the information of God.’ ‘Don’t you think God knows the facts?’ Bethe asked. ‘Yes,’ said Szilard. ‘He knows the facts, but He does not know this version of the facts.’
Hans Christian von Baeyer, Taming the Atom
 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
As I sit here, in early 2003, I have before me several pages of manuscript bearing majestically encouraging and tactful notes from Ian Tattersall of the American Museum of Natural History pointing out, inter alia, that Périgueux is not a wine-producing region, that it is inventive but a touch unorthodox of me to italicize taxonomic divisions above the level of genus and species, that I have persistently misspelled Olorgesailie (a place I visited only recently), and so on in similar vein through two chapters of text covering his area of expertise, early humans.
Goodness knows how many other inky embarrassments may lurk ............

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