title: A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition
author:  Bill Bryson 
description: <b>Praise for <i>A Short History of Nearly Everything</i></b><br /><br />A modern classic of science writing. . . . The more I read of <i>A Short History of Nearly Everything</i>, the more I was convinced that Bryson had achieved exactly what hed set out to do. <i>New York Times Book Review</i><br /><br />A highly readable mix of historical anecdotes, gee-whiz facts, adept summarization, and gleeful recounts of the eccentricities of great scientists. It moves so fast that its science on a toboggan.<i>Seattle Times<br /></i><br />[Bill Bryson] makes science interesting and funny. . . . You can bet that many questions you have about the universe and the world will be answered here.<i>Boston Globe</i><br /><br />Here are answers to the stupid questions you were afraid to ask in school . . . [Bryson] peppers the book with wit and great details. . . . Bottom line: Science with a smile.<i>People</i><br /><br />It is one of this books great achievements that Bryson is able to weave a satisfying universal narrative without sparing the reader one whit of scientific ignorance or doubt. . . . [<i>A Short History of Nearly Everything</i>] represents a wonderful education, and all schools would be better places if it were the core science reader on the curriculum.Tim Flannery, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i><br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
zlib_text: Also by Bill Bryson
  
   _The Lost Continent_
  
   _The Mother Tongue_
  
   _Neither Here Nor There_
  
   _Made in America_
  
   _Notes from a Small Island_
  
   _A Walk in the Woods_
  
   _I’m a Stranger Here Myself_
  
   _In a Sunburned Country_
  
   _Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words_
  
   _Bill Bryson’s African Diary_
  
   _A Short History of Nearly Everything_
  
   _A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition_
  
   _The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid_
  
   _Shakespeare: The World as Stage_
  
   _Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors_
  
   _At Home: A Short History of Private Life_
  
   _At Home: A Short History of Private Life: Illustrated Edition_
  
   _One Summer_
  
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  Copyright © 2015 by Bill Bryson
  
  Map and line illustrations © 2015 by Neil Gower
  
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division
  of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover in
  Great Britain by Doubleday UK, an impr