The Body: A Guide For Occupants. London: Double Day

Bill Bryson

ISBN 10: 085752240X / ISBN 13: 9780857522405

Published by Doubleday, London, 2019

About this Item

BRYSON, BILL (1951-Present). The Body: A Guide For Occupants. London: Double Day [Owned by Transworld, who are a part of Penguin Random House UK] 2019. 1st Edition. 8vo (241x160mm), 254pp. Very Good. Original black cloth covering with silver lettering and publisher's logo on the spine. Illustrated extensively throughout. Original unclipped dust jacket. Decorated endpages. All page edges red gilt. Some water damage to the top and base of the dust jacket, but this isn?t on the book itself. Light warping to the pages, but otherwise the book is in superb condition. Promotional sticker on the dust jacket. Textblock is square and tight, seems unread. Signed in blue ink by the author on the title page. Includes promotional bookmark in the same design as the dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1768907939532

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Body: A Guide For Occupants. London: Double Day
• Publisher: Doubleday, London
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 085752240X
• ISBN 13: 9780857522405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 16W x 25H x 5D centimeters 16 centimeters width by 25 centimeters height by 5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 720 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medicine
  • Science

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Synopsis

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