Did you know that 'dinosaur' means 'terrible lizard', that Planet Earth is 4,550 million years old (+/- 70 million), that the blue whale is so huge its tongue weighs as much as an elephant? Bryson's judicious mixture of fact and anecdote makes science palatable to the non-scientist and there is hardly a dull moment in over 400 pages of mainly fascinating information about the world, from the Big Bang to the rise of civilisation.
(Wendy Swann - bwl 21 November 2003 ) |
