- Title:
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants (MP3)
- Written by:
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Bill Bryson
- Read by:
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Bill Bryson
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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14 hours 48 minutes
- MP3 size:
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611 MB
- Published:
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March 01 2020
- Available Date:
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March 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655653998
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Biology; Science & Technology
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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Bestselling author
Award winning author
Bill Bryson takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body.
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.
Now he turns his attention inwards 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 book will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again.
'A delightful tour guide ... Bryson's stroll through human anatomy, physiology, evolution, and illness (diabetes, cancer, infections) is instructive, accessible, and entertaining.'
Booklist
'The Body – a delightful, anecdote-propelled read – proves one of his most ambitious yet, as he leads us on a head-to-toe tour of a physique that’s terra incognita to many of us ... Playful, lucid ... [Bryson] cover[s] a remarkably large swathe of human corporeal and cerebral experience.'
The Boston Globe