This wonderful little book by Bill Bryson really does tell the History of nearly everything. One finishes reading the book with the sense that the book really does what it promises on the cover.
The book doesn’t actually go into countries and politics, of course, it rather tells the History of the world, how it came to be, what’s inside and outside it? How we found that out? Where ideas came from, what particular events caused these ideas or the disclosing of them. I imagine that most “grown-ups” will know the majority of the information contained in this book, the novelty is in the format; “a small book” connecting information you had never given much thought to and giving it a deeper meaning.
The style is simple and although, in a sense, didactic, it doesn’t give the reader the feeling of being lectured to. I loved it and would recommend it even to those who bore easily.
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