Bill BrysonThe Body Illustrated
R359
About
Number One Bestseller in both hardback and paperback The Sunday Times Book of the Year The ideal gift for everybody, 'A directory of wonders.' Guardian 'Jaw-dropping.' The Times 'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson...an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.' The Sunday Times 'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an entertaining and nutritious book.' Daily Telegraph 'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts, and astonishing stories and now fully illustrated for the first time, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological makeup. A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this new book is an instant classic. It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again. The ideal gift for readers of every age who wish to discover more about themselves. '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
Product Features
- Format: Hardback
- Published: 13/10/2022
- Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Genre: Human Biology
- Length: 560 pages
- Dimensions: 253mm x 43mm x 197mm
- Weight: 1938g
Ooh, shiny!
Remember that scene in Aladdin where his pet monkey and compadre, Abu, touches one of the forbidden gems in the Cave of Wonders, and suddenly all of that gold and treasure starts melting and the whole place comes crumbling down?
Talk about dramatic! Amidst all of that theatrical music and a magic carpet flight, it was hard not to think 'dang, what a waste of all that precious treasure!' As we grew up, we came to realise that a cave full of mystical gems and piles of gold probably doesn't exist - and if it does, we're too tired to look for it.
Be that as it may, we also come to appreciate the treasure and beauty in other things, like a shiny new set of cutlery, in various colours and tints, mind you. Kind of like our deal from Jane Becker. Now you can dine happily ever after!