Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Bryson-esque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner’s manual for everybody.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. “Glorious.You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design.” -The Washington Postīill 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. The reference list includes sources for key quotes within the book and a good selection of further reading.NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST I read this during the current coronavirus pandemic, and the chapters ‘Microbial you’ and ‘When things go wrong: diseases’ were scarily accurate with some of the statements, regarding what we are currently facing. I defy you to not be amazed and breathless about the breadth and the complexity of the human body, after reading this book. Balancing his sources between the published scientific and popular media, to interviews with friends and other key scientists from the medical and wider scientific community, you have anything but a dry account of who we are, how we got here and how we work.
Every inch is covered, from the skin to the gut, the nervous system and pain, the immune system, movement, food and sleep, to the beginning and the end of life. Anyone interested in weird and wonderful facts about how we are put together and how we work should read this book it is pitched at the right level for everyone to find something of interest, though aimed primarily at the medical layman. Bill Bryson is normally known for his travel books, which are excellent reads he is such an easy raconteur.
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