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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

Paperback • 2010 • English

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson

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"Bill's own fascination with science began with a battered old schoolbook he had when he was about ten or eleven years old in America. It had an illustration that captivated him - a cutaway diagram showing Earth's interior as it would look if you cut into it with a large knife and carefully removed about a quarter of its bulk. The idea of lots of startled cars and people falling off the edge of that sudden cliff(and 4,000 miles is a pretty long way to fall) was what grabbed him in the beginning,...Show more

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ISBN

9780552562966

Publisher

Corgi Children's

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

Format

Paperback

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