The Body

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Bill Bryson sets off to find out exactly how the human body works and what goes on inside it and soon finds it is infinitely more complex and wondrous, and ofter more mysterious, than he had ever expected. Travelling from brain to neither regions, and from the start of life to the end, he reveals we are an ashtonishing story of success. And the history of how we have tried to masterour biology and stave off disease is packed with forgotten heroes, astounding anecdotes and extraordinary facts.