bill bryson

Bill Bryson set out to ask, How much do we really know about William Shakespeare, and how confident can we be of our knowledge? Bryson bills himself as a journalist, not as a historian, and yet the question he faces is one common to those who study history. How certain are we of our facts...

As the title suggests, “A Short History of Nearly Everything” is an ambitious project. Bryson starts with the Big Bang and ends with modern era extinction - and in the intermediate 30 chapters takes in the chemistry, astronomy, physics, geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology needed to...