A Quick Historical past of Practically All the pieces

One of many world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his final journey — into essentially the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to reply.

In
A Stroll within the Woods, Invoice Bryson trekked the Appalachian Path — properly, most of it. In
In A Sunburned Nation, he confronted a few of the most deadly wildlife Australia has to supply. Now, in his greatest e book, he confronts his biggest problem: to know — and, if potential, reply — the oldest, greatest questions we have now posed in regards to the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory every little thing from the Huge Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to know how we received from there being nothing in any respect to there being us. To that finish, he has hooked up himself to a number of the world’s most superior (and infrequently obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their workplaces, laboratories, and area camps. He has learn (or tried to learn) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their highly effective minds.
A Quick Historical past of Practically All the pieces
is the file of this quest, and it’s a generally profound, generally humorous, and all the time supremely clear and entertaining journey within the realms of human information, as solely Invoice Bryson can render it. Science has by no means been extra involving or entertaining.

From the Hardcover version.