“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment.”

About Bill Bryson

Author • American

Bill Bryson is a celebrated American author known for his humorous and insightful books on travel, the English language, and science. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he spent much of his adult life in the United Kingdom,...