The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants

Bill Bryson's The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a best-selling book that explores the human body, its functions, and its remarkable ability to heal itself. It is full of extraordinary facts, astonishing stories, and is now fully illustrated for the first time. The book is a brilliant, often funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make-up and is an instant classic. It is the ideal gift for readers of all ages who wish to discover more about themselves.

Format: Hardback
Length: 560 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2022
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

The Sunday Times Bestseller, both in hardback and paperback, The Sunday Times Book of the Year, and the perfect gift for everyone.

A directory of wonders, The Guardian. Jaw-dropping, The Times. Classic, witty, and joyful 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, 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 make-up.

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

Weight: 1940g
Dimension: 200 x 252 x 46 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780857527691