#1 Sunday Times bestseller in hardback, this head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body is as compulsively readable as it is comprehensive. Bryson at his very best, it is a must-read owner's manual for everybody.
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling
books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small
Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of
the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island
was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed work
of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the
Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and is the biggest selling
non-fiction book of the 21st century. The Body- A Guide for
Occupants was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize
and is an international bestseller.
Bill Bryson was Chancellor of Durham University 2005-2011. He is an
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England.
A directory of wonders. Extraordinary stories about the heart,
lungs, genitals ... plus some anger and life advice – all delivered
in the inimitable Bryson style
*Guardian*
Remarkable ... Every page is dense with scientific facts written as
vividly as a thriller, as well as answers to conundrums such as why
we don’t fall out of bed when we are asleep ... It is woven through
with the kind of human stories that Bryson has made his
trademark.
*Mail on Sunday*
Readable and useful ... witty, jargon-free prose that glides you
through 400 pages. It’s fun to read because it’s not just
comprehensive, but quirky.
*The Times*
SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019: 'so packed with arresting facts (you
eat 60 tons of food in a lifetime) and unlikely anecdotes (such as
Isambard Kingdom Brunel's six weeks with a half-sovereign lodged in
his throat) that you barely notice the sheer volume of anatomical
knowledge you're digesting ... makes complex subjects simple and
eminently entertaining.'
*Sunday Times*
It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an
entertaining and nutritious book..where Byrson really shines is in
his imaginative glosses on the facts he has collected.
*The Daily Telegraph*
The extraordinary story of what we are made of and how we work ...
This revelatory book reads as captivatingly as a thriller.
*Country Life*
Through anecdotes about scientific history and startling facts that
seem too extraordinary to be true—the DNA in one person, if
stretched out, would measure billions of miles and reach beyond
Pluto—Bryson draws the reader into his subject. ... Bryson’s tone
is both informative and inviting, encouraging the reader,
throughout this exemplary work, to share the sense of wonder he
expresses at how the body is constituted and what it is capable
of.
*Publishers' Weekly*
Bryson rummages about in our vital organs, emerging with a parade
of fascinating facts.
*Daily Mirror*
‘Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson… richly interesting… an entertaining
and absolutely fact-rammed book. If it sells hundreds of thousands
of copies, like the last one, it will be no bad thing.’
*The Sunday Times*
[Bill] takes us with him, wondering at the complex functions of the
tongue, seeing him stick a finger in the aorta…The book’s a
bestseller.
*The Sunday Times*
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