Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays
at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short
History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has
happened from the Big Band to the rise of civilization ? how we got from there,
being nothing at all, to here, being us. The ultimate eye-opening journey
through time and space, revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen
it before.