Bill Bryson's Fascinating Exploration of the Universe: A Short History of Nearly Everything

Christian Dechery: For lovers of non-fiction this is good as it gets. Amazingly gripping storytelling with a content range you can’t possibly fathom comes all from a single person. Yet it does.
The way the author delivers stories, science facts and his own input as food for thought is just remarkable. Delicious reading from page one to last. This is how good it is.

Brazil on Feb 28, 2024

JW Powell: Another fun and insightful book from Bill Bryson. His books are so easy to read. I like the way he mixes story-telling, whimsical narratives, and real, hard science and history. It's a superb balance that keeps his books fun and interesting to read.

United States on Feb 17, 2024

Kathy: Very entertaining

United States on Feb 16, 2024

Kindle Customer: In true Bill Bryson fashion this is educational in the most splendidly entertaining way :)
A high-speed romp through cosmology and geology and archeology and anthropology :)

United States on Jan 21, 2024

aakash: You might think is my life such a dull one, well thats not the case, the book is amazingly beautiful stunningly mind bending and it starts to grow in you each day you go through it…

India on Jan 17, 2024

Paul: I read this several years ago but mislaid my copy. So I bought it again and have just re-read it. If you like popular science then do read this. Bryson takes us on a journey through science and discovery and does so with wit and the right level of depth. Simply wonderful.

United Kingdom on Jan 16, 2024

Steptoe Holmes: This eloquent and highly entertaining book presents a sweeping narrative of the nature of the universe and human progress in understanding it. I greatly enjoyed the vignettes of the often-quirky personalities and turbulent lives of many of the scientists mentioned. This book published in 2003, still retains fascinating relevance, but I hope that it will be updated to capture scientific advances in the past two decades. A Short History of Nearly Everything should be in every school library.

United States on Jan 11, 2024

Kyle M.: Item was as expected and arrived quickly and in good condition. I think everyone should have a copy of this book. Great read, thanks!

Canada on Dec 23, 2023

Kai Lee: From the author’s introduction, one can deduce that, when he was growing up, he was convinced that science was supremely dull. This was due to his disappointment with the science books he studied, which failed to answer fundamental questions such as “How did we end up with a Sun in the middle of our planet? And if it is burning away down there why isn’t the ground under our feet hot to the touch?” This disappointment may be why he became an author/journalist rather than a scientist. However, about four or five years before he was writing the present book (probably in his mid-forties), on a long flight across the pacific, he became keenly aware of his lack of knowledge about science in general and our planet. He felt this to be unacceptable and decided to remedy the situation by devoting a portion of his life (three years it turned out) reading books and journals and finding experts who were willing to answer a lot of his outstandingly dumb questions about various fields of science. He succeeded in understanding and appreciating the wonder and accomplishments of science at a level that isn’t too technical or demanding but also isn’t entirely superficial. He was able to...

United States on Mar 25, 2023

Hilda: Vale la pena la lectura

Mexico on Jul 11, 2022