Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveler, 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 the civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, reveling the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.