This is not an encyclopedia — although a lot of facts are sorted out here.
This is not a practical guide — although there are many helpful instructions.
This is not a detective novel — although it is impossible to tear yourself away from the book.
It’s just a fascinating story. The history of everything. Almost everything.
Part 1
«A Brief History of Almost Everything in the World» is one of the main popular science bestsellers of our day, a classic of popular science. It contains the Big Bang and subatomic particles, primitive oceans and ancient continents, under its cover giant lizards roam and hunt down their prey primitive hunters … But this audiobook is not only about the distant past: it tells about the cutting edge of science, discoveries made by scientists about global threats and the future of our civilization.
© Bill Bryson, 2003
© Translation. V. Mikhailov, 2006
© Preface, comments. A. Sergeev, 2006
© Edition in Russian by AST Publishers, 2016
© & ℗ Audiobook LLC, 2018
Audio Recording Producer: Tatiana Plyuta
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