The Body: A Guide for Occupants

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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[Read: 12 October 2025]
[Read: 25 February 2020]

Second reading and such a good and interesting book. Our bodies are so fascinating, a marvellous piece of machinery really that just works.