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Can I read A Short History of Nearly Everything on EtoBox?
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Short History of Nearly Everything about?
One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods , Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail — well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country , he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand — and, if possible, answer — the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and
Who reads A Short History of Nearly Everything?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bill Bryson
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780767908177
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science, Humor
- Rating
- 4.19 / 5 (196,205 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14