A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

A new edition of Bill Byson's worldwide bestseller A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING abridged and adapted for children with full colour illustrations and photographs. Bryson covers the wonder and mysteries of time and space, the frequently bizarre and often obsessive scientists and the methods they used, the crackpot theories which held sway for far too long, the extraordinary accidental discoveries which suddenly advanced whole areas of science and the mind-boggling fact that, somehow, the universe exists and, against all odds, life came to be on this wondrous planet we call home.