When Things Go Wrong: Diseases: from The Body

by Bill Bryson

Overview

In this selection from The Body, his compulsively readable and bestselling owner’s manual to the human body, Bill Bryson introduces us to the mysterious, and often devastating, world of disease.

Written with extraordinary insight and filled with remarkable facts, When Things Go Wrong deepens our understanding of the maladies that afflict us--what they are and how they work.  

A Vintage Short.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593312162
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/21/2020
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	233,785
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

BILL BRYSON's bestselling books include The Body, A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary award). He was chancellor of Durham University, England's third oldest university, from 2005 to 2011, and is an honorary fellow of Britain's Royal Society.

Hometown:

Hanover, New Hampshire

Date of Birth:

1951

Place of Birth:

Des Moines, Iowa

Education:

B.A., Drake University, 1977