Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can\'t contain his curiosity about the world around him.
Bill Bryson\'s challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if th.
This book is his quest to understand Everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can\'t contain his curiosity about the world around him