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The Body: Illustrated

A Guide for Occupants

by Bill Bryson
Hardback
Publication Date: 05/10/2022
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A new, beautifully illustrated edition of the Number One Bestseller and Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, which takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. 'A directory of wonders' - Guardian

Now enhanced in this new edition by hundreds of stunning photographs and illustrations, Bryson's book about the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself, is an instant classic. A Sunday Times and international bestseller, it is jam-packed with extraordinary facts, remarkable characters and astonishing stories.

'What I learned is that we are infinitely more complex and wondrous and often more mysterious, than I had ever suspected. There really is no story more amazing than the story of us.' Bill Bryson

ISBN:
9780857527691
9780857527691
Category:
Human biology
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
05-10-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
560
Dimensions (mm):
253x197x43mm
Weight:
1.94kg

'Jaw-dropping'
-The Times

'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts in to an entertaining and nutritious book.
Daily Telegraph

'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson ... an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book'
Sunday Times

Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson's bestselling travel books include The Lost Continent and Notes from a Small Island, which in a national poll was voted the book that best represents Britain. Another travel book, A Walk in the Woods, has become a major film starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson. His new number one Sunday Times bestseller is The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island.

His acclaimed book on the history of science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Royal Society's Aventis Prize as well as the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary award. He has written books on language, on Shakespeare, on history, and on his own childhood in the hilarious memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. His last critically lauded bestsellers were At Home: a Short History of Private Life, and One Summer: America 1927

Bill Bryson was born in the American Midwest, and now lives in the UK. A former Chancellor of Durham University, he was President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England for five years, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society.

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