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  • The American Scholar

    How We Work

    Sep 03, 2019 4 minutes
    Review by Raj Telhan

    THE BODY: A Guide for Occupants

    BY BILL BRYSON

    Doubleday, 464 pp., $30

    IN his latest amble into the realm of natural science, Bill Bryson is not so much a discoverer of new lands as a charismatic cartographer of existing ones, smartly mapping points of entry into territory that might otherwise remain impenetrable to curious travelers. With light-footed prose, winds its way through the dense terrain of anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry, elucidating for the reader how the human form functions. The result is an absorbing catalog of the human body in all its firmness and frailty. Bryson revels in the sublime intricacy of

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