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It rarely strays into the extremely technical or detailed, but still conveys the main thrust of the ideas.

If you're interested in the general topics I mentioned, and just want a nice, 'for the average person with an interest in science' presentation of this material, you'll thoroughly enjoy this audio book.

Even though this is probably one of the longest audio books on this site, you'll still be wanting more when it's over. But it follows a coherent path about all those little tidbits of the history of our planet, our species and our universe, that everyone should know, but most of us never bothered to investigate. The actual content is far too wide ranging to cover specifically in a short review. At first the narrator was slightly irritating, he sounds like the kind of 'crazy professor' types they get to host pop science shows for kids, but after a while he grew on me, and in the end I think it was very well narrated. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.This is my favourite audio book from audible so far. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -and, if possible, answer -the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer.

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -well, most of it. Synopsis: One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey-into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.

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