![]() ![]() Bryson's celebrated book was the sort of thing academic historians today have a phrase for: "big history." Just four years after A Short History was published, the historian Cynthia Stokes Brown released a book with a similar scope. Of course we loved A Short History - as did everybody else, it seems. It's easy to imagine precocious teenagers reading Bryson's new book, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, in much the same spirit. When I was a teenager, I had an argument with a close friend about Bill Bryson.īoth of us were competitive debaters, which meant we actively sought out sweeping, magisterial works like A Short History of Nearly Everything - something from which we could glean as much as possible from as little as possible. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Body Subtitle A Guide for Occupants Author Bill Bryson ![]()
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