ABSTRACT
Some of you, I know, get a bit restless with all the fiction and escapism on our shelves, and would like to read something serious and scientific. So let me introduce Bill Bryson, who has just the book for you – solidly scientific and definitely stranger than fiction. Bill made his name with travel books such as Notes from a Small Island. Now, after taking three years to find out all about science, he has come up with A Short History of Nearly Everything. This is a wonderfully entertaining and informative gallop through physics, chemistry and biology, taking in the origin and nature of the universe, elements and particles, proteins and chromosomes, the rise of life and the origin of man. I am happy to say that there is hardly any maths.
