The Body

Resumen del libro

'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian

'Jaw-dropping.' - The Times

'Classic, wry, gleeful 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.' - The 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 and astonishing stories 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.

'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

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Bill Bryson (Des Moines, Iowa, 1951) inició la carrera de Periodismo en Estados Unidos, pero la interrumpió para viajar por Europa. En 1977 se instaló en North Yorkshire, Inglaterra, donde residió dos décadas y trabajó en periódicos como x{0026}lt;em The Timesx{0026}lt;/em o x{0026}lt;em The Independentx{0026}lt;/em . Aunque también se ha dedicado a la enseñanza (llegó a ser rector de la Universidad de Durham), actualmente se dedica sobre todo a escribir. Es autor de, entre otros libros superventas,x{0026}lt;em Una breve historia de casi todox{0026}lt;/em (Premio Aventis de libros de ciencia y finalista del Premio Samuel Johnson);x{0026}lt;em El cuerpo humano; En casa: una breve historia de la vida privada; Un paseo por el bosque; Aventuras y desventuras del Chico Centella; Shakespeare; 1927: un verano que cambió el mundo; Viaje al sueño americano, Crónicas de Gran Bretañax{0026}lt;/em y x{0026}lt;em Nuevas crónicas de Gran Bretañax{0026}lt;/em , todos publicados por RBA. x{0026}lt;/p