A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Narrated by:
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William Roberts
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Written by:
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Bill Bryson
About this listen
Featuring a special introduction written for the audiobook edition and read by the author
A Radio 4 Book Club Selection.
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's fascinating and humorous quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. He takes subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry, and particle physics, and aims to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. In the company of some extraordinary scientists, Bill Bryson reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
©2003 Bill Bryson (P)2014 Audible, Inc.Editorial Reviews
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"Stylish [and] stunningly accurate prose....Brims with strange and amazing facts...destined to become a modern classic of science writing." ( The New York Times)
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- KSri
- 25-01-22
A really good audiobook
A fascinating and informative book about the history of science. I wondered how the author was going to fit in the world history, the civilizations, the world wars and every thing else in a book, hence the title "A Short History of Nearly Everything". So.. It's an interesting book that covers the history of science from the beginning of time or rather the beginning of the earth and encompasses a bit of geology, evolution, some astrophysics and other related fields. This book is perfect for those who are curious to know how our world came to be but does not want to be weighed down by tomes of details.
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- SOURABH NANDI
- 22-03-19
A Short story of our Lifetime
Waiting to read the book for almost a decade and finally over....The author gives an interesting perspective to see our existence and why we should love our Mother Nature.
Must Read....
Narration is Superb...
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- sunilnarayanan
- 28-09-21
Great Book
Author has taken great effort to cover everything in the univers. Good narration. Clear and we'll articulated
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- Thomas John
- 26-07-22
A great book and wonderful narration.
Loved it, truly insightful. The narration was top notch, and did full justice to the book.
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- sriharsha
- 20-04-22
Very apt title and nice collection
The book briefly covers the evolution of our understanding in various subjects like anthropology to physics, geology to genetics, etc. nice book to listen in audio format. At someplaces, i missed to connect with the author, but i believe that is due to my lack of understanding or the eagerness to finish the book. I will surely listen to it again.
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- pardhasaradhi
- 05-07-21
excellent
excellent narration. interesting things to know about universe.
recommended to listen to any age
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- ANJ Aradhya
- 06-04-20
With immense gratitude .....
I am really grateful first for being part of human specie and second for having fellow humans to create such masterpiece of information about the origin of the universe and the life itself . But for these explorers , researchers , scientists , historians and above all humans with proverbial heart and conscience , an ordinary soul like me would not have got the glimpse of so many things that form part of our existence . Perhaps , I hope to read this book many times over till my end to nurture my feelings of gratitude and marvel at the whole thing called earth's history including that of species on it .
Thank you author and the reader
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- Benu
- 19-01-22
Great book. You can't go wrong with this one!
Irrespective of whether you are a science enthusiast or no - you must read this!
This book presents to the reader amazing ringside view of how humanity developed. The splash of humor with mind-boggling facts made this book interesting from the beginning.
Recommend This!
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- Gishu Pillai
- 02-06-24
Mindboggling spectrum of content and depth
You will be smarter at the end of this book.. Take my word for it.
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- Avi Pratap Singh
- 05-09-21
Engaging
A good book to listen to anytime you want to be carried away to another world, which is actually our world through Bryson's eyes.
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