The Independent similarly praised the book for the wide array of dispensable facts contained within the book. The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous. It is all in large text, is easy to understand, and vividly illustrated with cartoons, scientists, and at the front and the back of the book with diagrams of the human body. plus some anger and life advice – all delivered in the inimitable Bryson style". As Bill Bryson writes, We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted. This illustrated edition of the Body by Bill Bryson is the best edition of this book I have read.
The book has received generally positive reviews with The Guardian headlining their review with "Extraordinary stories about the heart, lungs, genitals. Within each chapter, Bryson describes the function of the relevant biological system, emphasising the history of the scientific developments that led to the current understanding, all with the humour that is characteristic of his writing. After a brief introduction, the book divides itself into several chapters, each of which describes a particular part of the body or, as in the two chapters on diseases, problems that the body can be faced with. It is Bryson's second book of popular science, with the first being A Short History of Nearly Everything published in 2003. The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a non-fiction book by British-American author Bill Bryson, first published in 2019.
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