A Short History of Nearly Everything
A determined amateur works out how science actually established what it knows, and finds the researchers stranger than the findings.
Bryson set out to understand the science he had ignored at school, and reports back on how we came to know the age of the Earth, the size of an atom and the origin of species. The pleasure is in the researchers themselves, who turn out to be quarrelsome and frequently wrong, and in his refusal to pretend any of it was obvious.
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