A BRIEF HISTORY of Nearly Everything is Costs Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang towards the rise of civilization – how we got from there, being almost nothing, to here, getting us.

His challenge is to consider subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, and see if there is not a way to render them comprehensible to individuals who have never thought they may be interested in technology. It’s not a lot about what we know, as about how exactly we know what we know. How do we know what is at the heart of the planet earth, or just what a dark hole is certainly, or where in fact the continents had been 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever physique these exact things out?

On his travels through time and space, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the best eye-opening journey, and reveals the globe in ways most of us have by no means seen it before.