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Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. Settled in England for many years, he moved to America with his wife and four children for a few years ,but has since returned to live in the UK. His bestselling travel books include The Lost Continent, Notes From a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods and Down Under. His acclaimed work of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and was the biggest selling non-fiction book of the decade in the UK. Photography © Julian J
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A Short History of Nearly Everything is a work of popular science, tackling complex topics from the Big Bang to human evolution. The book won several prestigious awards, including the Aventis Prizes for Science Books in 2004 and the EU Descartes Prize for science communication in 2005. An illustrated edition was released in 2005, and various audiobook versions are available.

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