The human body: its contents brilliantly and wittily described
BodyBill Bryson has excelled himself. I am beginning to think that the only reference books one needs in a library are : Mother Tongue, A Short History of Nearly Everthing, and The Body. If I could have one wish about being able to return to my school days it would be that Bill Bryson had written the reference books. , especially this one. The book is brilliantly constructed and as stuffed full of interesting facts as the body is stuffed full of.....well, you will have to read the book to find out. I really like the way he researched the stories behind the discoveries about the body and the people who have made them. It is understandably erudite and in no way patronising. So, if you have always had that desperate urge to know all about achromatopes, leishmaniasis, and zygotes or, you just need to refresh your mind concerning Marlene Zuck, Sir William Arbuthnot Lane or you are competing in a Quiz Night and have forgotten all you never learnt about Fleming, Typhoid Mary and Toulouse-Lautrec - read, learn, and inwardly digest.