As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.īill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body…įull 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.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. Even the cost of the materials for building a human body, then, is uncertain but more to the point, even with all those materials, the actual act of building a human being would still be beyond us.
Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. An episode of the science program Nova, broadcast by US network PBS in 2012, pegged the cost of building a human at a mere 168.
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