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The Body

The Body

A Guide for Occupants
EssaysHealth
Pages
464
Published
2019
Language
English

Synopsis

Bill Bryson takes you on an incredible journey inside your own body, exploring how it works, its amazing capacity for healing, and what happens when things go wrong. Packed with fascinating facts and his signature humor, this book offers a fresh perspective on the miracle of life and the incredible machine that is you. It's the ultimate owner's manual for your body, making the complex wonderfully accessible.

Prose complexity
4/10

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InformativeFunnyLightheartedThought-Provoking

Genres

Essays Health Science & Nature

About the author

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Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson (born 8 December 1951 in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American-British writer of humorous travel books, popular science and books on the English language. He moved to England in 1977, worked as a journalist at The Times and The Independent, and broke through with Notes from a Small Island (1995) and A Walk in the Woods (1997). A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) won the Aventis Prize for science books. He was Chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011, is an honorary fellow...

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