Description: D’Artagnan Books This is a signed first edition in good condition. It was published by Doubleday. The first printing was published in 2003, this copy is dated 2004 inside.'Malcolm' was Malcolm Crowthers the photographer. 'Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through time and space, he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric, competitive, obsessive and foolish scientists, like the painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like how much the Earth weighed, but never bothered to tell anybody about many of his findings. In the company of such extraordinary people, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.' This is a 1st Edition / 19th Printing (The number string is: 19 20). Condition: Book - Good - rubbing/bumping/wear to the corners and edges, a lean and creasing to the spine, some fading/discolouration to the covers, opens quite easily to a few pages, slight bumping to several page corners, marking and slight foxing/discolouration to the page edges and soft tanning to the pages. Dust Jacket - Good - rubbing/bumping/wear to the corners and edges, several v.small nicks and marking, scratches, discolouration and creasing. The DJ is not price clipped. The DJ is in a protective plastic sleeve (non-adhesive). Photos/scans are always of the actual book for sale, and more can be supplied upon request. I specialise in First Editions and in particular Signed First Editions. Please visit my eBay shop as I have a large range of books and some interesting ephemera.Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, especially about the displayed book or postage costs.I do combine P&P costs, and I do post Worldwide!
Price: 74.95 GBP
Location: Haslemere
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Binding: Hardback
Modification Description: Signed by Author
Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military
Language: English
Signed: Yes
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Doubleday
Modified Item: Yes
