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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill
Bryson (Doubleday)
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 civilisation – how we got from
there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. On his travels
through time and space he encounters a splendid collection
of astonishingly eccentric, competitive, obsessive and foolish
scientists. In the company of such extraordinary people,
Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening
journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never
seen before.
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. He
is one of Britain’s best-known travel writers, and
is the author of The Lost Continent, Neither
Here nor There, Notes from a SmallIsland, Notes
from a Big Country and Down Under. His most
recent bestseller is African Diary (a charity book for CARE
International). He has also written two books about the English
language, Mother Tongue and Made in America.
He lives in Norfolk, England with his family.
Publicist: Emma Dowson, Doubleday 020 8231 6651
e.dowson@transworld-publishers.co.uk
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