About the Book: The Body: A Guide for Occupants
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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A directory of wonders.-The 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.-The Daily Telegraph
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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