A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. "A Short History of Nearly Everything" is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilisation - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
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I listened to the audio book all in one day, and enjoyed Bryson's voice reading to me. I'm unsure if the version I listened to was abridged, but I thought it was somewhat disjointed at parts, possibly due to an abridged audio book or maybe that was the way it was written.
But overall it was an amusing report of interesting points of history, essentially all the major improvements and advances that humans have made from the 1600s until present.
I would have sort of wished for some "ancient man" inventions and thoughts as well.
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