We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.

A new, beautifully illustrated edition of the bestseller, which takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body.

Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.

The Body Illustrated will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again.