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
BILL BRYSON Bill Bryson nació en Des Moines, Iowa, en 1951. En 1977 se instaló con su esposa y sus cuatro hijos en North Yorkshire, Inglaterra, donde residió durante dos décadas. Actualmente vive en Estados Unidos. Es autor, entre otras obras, de los bestsellers internacionales Una breve historia de casi todo (2003) (Premio Aventis al mejor libro de ciencia general y Premio Divulgación Científica Descartes), En las antípodas (2000) y Shakespeare (2007), todas ellas publicadas en esta misma editorial. La habilidad narrativa de Bryson y su claridad conceptual le permiten tratar de un modo original y divertido los asuntos más variados, desde la ciencia y los viajes hasta las biografías literarias.
