![]() Through his convoluted description of how you are essentially the summation of thousands of generations of your ancestors’ DNA, Bryson has a real knack for making one reflect on the miraculous gift of life that we are all blessed with: It’s a hell of a starting point to congratulate the reader for being alive, but that’s exactly what Bryson does. This in itself may seem a lofty aim, yet not only does Bryson succeed at simplifying complicated sets of scientific ideas, making them accessible to the average reader, he also unearths humour from the unlikeliest of places. Ostensibly a non-fiction book which explores the history of humanity’s scientific understanding, Bryson seeks to explain the ins and outs of how we’ve come to learn as much as we have. ![]() Having made his name writing a series of extremely funny travel memoirs, Bill Bryson’s surprising decision to release A Short History of Nearly Everything in 2004 seemed to come out of nowhere. ![]()
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