He was chancellor of Durham University, England’s third oldest university, from 2005 to 2011, and is an honorary fellow of Britain’s Royal Society. The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson Write a review How customer reviews and ratings work Top positive review All positive reviews Brian LaRocca Bryson on the body Reviewed in the United States on DecemIts Bill Bryson and his talking about the body so of course everything in this book is interesting. Title, SUMMARY: The Body: A Guide for Occupants: By Bill Bryson The MW Summary Guide ( Physiology, Aging, Health Intervention, Disease ) Author, The Mindset. About the AuthorīILL BRYSON’s bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union’s highest literary award). As 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. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Bryson-esque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular.

From the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body: a handbook that’s as addictive as it is comprehensive.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 the ways it can (unfortunately) fail.

The body an occupants guide