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Bill Bryson.

169 p. :

col. ill., maps, ports.
An adaptation for younger readers of his book: A short history of nearly everything.Contents include: Lost in the cosmos -- The size of the earth -- A new age dawns -- Dangerous planet -- Life itself -- The road to us.
Summary: An abridged, adapted and illustrated edition of Bill Bryson's book: A short history of nearly everything. Covers the mysteries of time and space, the obsessive scientists and the methods they used, the theories, the accidental discoveries which advanced whole areas of science when the people were actually looking for something else (or in the wrong direction) and the fact that the universe exists and life came to be on this planet.