A really short history of nearly everything
Main Author: | Bryson, Bill. |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
[United States] :
Delacorte Press,
[2009], c2008.
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Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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Item Description: |
Includes index. |
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Physical Description: |
169 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. |
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Examines the "how" and the the "who" of scientific discovery. Explores the mysteries of time and space, and how, against all odds, life came to be on the wonderous planet we call home. |
ISBN: |
9780385738101 0385738102 |
Author Notes: |
He moved back to the United States in 1995. His first travel book, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America, was published in 1989. His other books include I'm a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, Made in America, The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson's African Diary, A Short History of Nearly Everything, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Walk About, and Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, the Genius of the Royal Society. A Walk in the Woods was adapted into a movie starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. Bryson's titles, The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain, Notes from a Small Island and Neither Here Nor There made the New York Times bestseller list in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) |