Textbooks and teachers alike did not ignite the passion for knowledge in him, mainly because they never delved in the whys, hows, and whens. He writes that science was a distant, unexplained subject at school. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail well, most of it. In it, he explores time from the Big Bang to the discovery of quantum mechanics, via evolution and geology.īill Bryson wrote this book because he was dissatisfied with his scientific knowledge-that was, not much at all. One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journeyinto the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. It was one of the bestselling popular science books of 2005 in the United Kingdom, selling over 300,000 copies.Ī Short History deviates from Bryson's popular travel book genre, instead describing general sciences such as chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything by American author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas of science, using easily accessible language that appeals more so to the general public than many other books dedicated to the subject.
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