About the author
Bill Bryson is an American-British nonfiction writer whose subjects include travel, language, domestic life, and science. His books are driven by curiosity, comic timing, and a willingness to stop at the basic question a specialist may have learned not to ask aloud.
Bill Bryson starts with an ordinary frustration: school had taught him the names of scientific facts without explaining how anyone had discovered them. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his attempt to recover the experiments, mistakes, rivalries, and lucky observations behind the account.
Where to start
Start with A Short History of Nearly Everything. Bill Bryson follows the discoveries that carried science from the birth of the universe to the arrival of human beings.
