Full of extraordinary discoveries and wonder at the world we live in,
this is a thrilling scientific journey through history. It raises and
answers many of the questions young readers ask about how the greatest
scientific discoveries were made and who made them. Starting with the
Big Bang (which wasn’t really a bang after all…) it looks at what we
know about the earth and how dangerous it is, how life is sustained on
the planet and ends by raising some of the issues about how we protect
the planet for the future. The individuals who have contributed most to
these debates such as Newton, Einstein, Darwin and Marie Curie are also
highlighted. Fully illustrated and with a useful index, this makes
entertaining reading as well as being a useful reference book.
A Really Short History Of Nearly Everything Synopsis
Covers the mysteries of time and space, the obsessive scientists and the methods they used, the theories, the accidental discoveries which advanced whole areas of science when the people were actually looking for something else (or in the wrong direction) and the fact that the universe exists and life came to be on this planet.
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. He settled in England in 1977, and lived for many years with his English wife and four children in North Yorkshire. He and his family then moved to America for a few years but have now returned to the UK. He is the bestselling author of The Lost Continent, Mother Tongue, Neither Here Nor There, Made in America, Notes From a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, Notes From a Big Country, Down Under and, most recently, A Short History of Nearly Everything. He is also the author of the bestselling African Diary (a charity book for CARE International).
