Check out the publisher’s blurb and the contents sections below to get a feel for the scope of the book. The oxygen that nourishes it arrives via the coronary arteries, in exactly the way oxygen reaches other organs. Curiously, the blood passing through the chambers of the heart does nothing for the heart itself. Result: I won’t be coming back for it anytime soon. The journey of blood around your body takes about fifty seconds to complete. NOTE: This is basically an engagingly written, unillustrated biology textbook (and not the kind of book that gets summarised). As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner’s manual for every body.” It is Brysons second book of popular science, with the first being A Short History of Nearly Everything published in 2003. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD 'Glorious.You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design.

Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Brysonesque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular.Īs Bill Bryson writes, “We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted.” The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous, compulsively readable facts and information. The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a non-fiction book by British-American author Bill Bryson, first published in 2019. Occupants By Bill Bryson Doubleday AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN E.O. The Body: A Guide for Occupants Kindle Edition by Bill Bryson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 18,459 ratings Editors' pick Best History See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Great on Kindle Great Experience. “Bill Bryson takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body-with a new afterword for this edition.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. This publisher’s blurb comes from the Penguin hard cover edition of The Body…

The Body by Bill Bryson