![]() ![]() ![]() This time, Bryson takes us on a body-part-by-body-part tour, with chapters devoted to the brain, the guts and the skin and hair. ![]() And on the whole, it’s pretty remarkable.īryson built his career with wry first-person travel books (for instance, “A Walk in the Woods,” about his ill-fated trek on the Appalachian Trail) and has since moved onto popular guides to science and history (“ A Short History of Everything,” about, well, everything). Plus, our bodies can and do go horribly awry, whether from tennis elbow or deadly infections.īut still, this cluster of interdependent 37.2 trillion cells is all we’ve got - at least until we upload our brains into the cloud. It’s a collection of evolution’s Scotch-tape-and-bubble-gum fixes (see our injury-prone knees or the dangerously exposed scrotum). In some respects, the human body is terribly designed. One of the strengths of Bryson’s delightful new book, “The Body,” is that it reveals the thousands of rarely acknowledged tasks our body takes care of as we go about our day. ![]()
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