![]() ![]() Bryson feels that he knows very little about science, primarily because he found science textbooks so dull and technical as a child. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. A Short History of Nearly Everything Characters Bill Bryson Bill Bryson Bryson is the author and sole narrator of the story. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. ![]() S-Recommended for senior high school students.Ī-Recommended for advanced students and adults. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, the bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, confronts his greatest challenge yet: to understandand, if possible, answerthe oldest. With a wink or a sly leer that comes across in his narration, Matthews is magnificent. ![]() What a stroke of genius to have Matthews read with his dry British accent, often Monty Pythonian in delivery he is absolutely perfect here. ![]() It includes smiles and laughs in place of footnotes.īryson has done an encyclopedia-load of scientific research, but he presents it with an anecdotal, light touch. More than an ordinary textbook, this covers everything from Anthropology to Zoology, from outer to inner space, from microbes to blue whales, from atoms to the boundless infinity of space with numerous stops in between.
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