The human body
Guide for owners
We spend our whole lives in one body, and yet most of us have no idea how the body works and what goes on in it. The history of anatomy and medicine is full of forgotten heroes, astonishing stories and interesting facts. By the way, from the moment you started reading this sentence, about a million red blood cells have been created in your body. The audiobook of The Human Body is truly fascinating, comprehensive and accessible. Take a journey with the author into the depths of the human body and discover how it works, what can go wrong in it and how wonderfully it can heal itself. You will realise that we are far more complex and mysterious than you thought. The audiobook is written from the point of view of an erudite and intelligent layman who has devoted a lot of time to studying various sources of information, and has been genuinely fascinated by various aspects of the human body. The topic was new to him, as in his career he had been mainly devoted to travelogues and the history of science. The work will especially please readers who are looking for interesting facts about the human body and about diseases. You will not find a systematic overview of the human body, diseases, diagnosis or treatment. It is this aspect that some critics and readers have accused him of. However, Bill Bryson clearly followed the key he had set for himself - the information had to be interesting, unvarnished and to the point. Another engaging aspect is the author's wit, insight, sense of humour and humility, with which he indirectly points out that we still know very little about the human body and its functioning.