To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. They are where history ends up.”īill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.From one of the most beloved authors of our time-more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone-a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. A Short History of Nearly Everythingis the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps.
Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest to understand - and, if possible, answer - the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail - well, most of it.
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