Short History of Nearly Everything, AAuthor: Bill Bryson Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore