The Body, A Guide for Occupants
Language: English
Published by Transworld Publishers / Penguin / Random House, London, 2019
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United KingdomThe Print Room
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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First edition, subsequent impression with number line '7 9 10 8 6'. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, very faint old dampstain to top of spine, remains of old sticky label to back jacket, not price clipped (£25.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg only copy. 455pp. 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.
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- Title
- The Body, A Guide for Occupants
- Author
- Bryson, Bill
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers / Penguin / Random House, London
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 085752240X
- ISBN 13
- 9780857522405
- Illustrator
- Jacket after Neil Gower
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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
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The Print Room
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