Informative, entertaining and often gross (kissing, according to one study, transfers up to one billion bacteria from one mouth to another, along with 0.2 micrograms of food bits). reveals the thousands of rarely acknowledged tasks our body takes care of as we go about our day. You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design.' – The Washington Post Having described the physical nature of our world and beyond, from the atomic to the intergalactic, in The Body now turns inward to explain–in his lucid, amusing style–what we're made of.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST - FINANCIAL TIMES - THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS - BOOKPAGE - THE BOSTON GLOBE 'Glorious. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner’s manual for every body. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Brysonesque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular.Īs Bill Bryson writes, “We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted.” The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous, compulsively readable facts and information. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body–with a new afterword for this edition.īill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body–how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail.

The human body a guide for occupants