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Gulp: Travels Around the Gut

Gulp: Travels Around the Gut


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In her fantastically disgusting international bestseller, Mary Roach dives into the strange wet miracles of science that operate inside us after every meal SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY WINTON PRIZE 2014 ‘Almost every page made me laugh out loud.’ The Sunday Times, Best Science Books of 2013 Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake. But very few of us realise what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal – let alone have pondered the results (of the research). How have physicists made crisps crispier? What do laundry detergent and saliva have in common? Was self-styled ‘nutritional economist’ Horace Fletcher right to persuade millions of people that chewing a bite of shallot seven hundred times would yield double the vitamins?  In her trademark, laugh-out-loud style, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examining prison guards, competitive hot dog eaters, Elvis' doctor, and many more as she investigates the beginning, and the end, of our food. ‘A wonderful nonfiction read… The journalism is gripping and the writing is intensely funny. If biology had been like this at school, my life would have taken a different path.’ Observer, Hidden Gems of 2016

About the Author :
Mary Roach is the bestselling author of several popular science books. She has written for the Guardian, Wired, BBC Focus, GQ and Vogue and many other publications. She lives in California.

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‘A wonderful nonfiction read…The journalism is gripping and the writing is intensely funny. If biology had been like this at school, my life would have taken a different path’. ‘The funniest book [of the year] by far... almost every page made me laugh out loud.’  ‘Witty, illuminating and at times astonishing.’ ‘Witty [and] enjoyable’ ‘The best kind of lavatory reading… exhaustive and irreverent’  ‘Mary Roach is a science writer who looks very closely at normal things — and close up, lots of things look weird or horrifying… The bit you will talk about most is how prisoners hide things up their bottoms’ 'Far away her funniest and most sparkling book' ‘Engrossingly gross’ 'The best kind of lavatory reading' 'Insightful, sharp science writing that will have you snorting with laughter is Mary Roach's speciality' ‘Disgustingly good... Roach takes a superbly witty prod at our innards.’ 'Roach writes clearly, with gallows humour...compelling' 'A wonderful read' 'Joyously funny and intrepidly smart'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781780749891
  • Publisher: Oneworld Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Oneworld Publications
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Sub Title: Travels Around the Gut
  • ISBN-10: 1780749899
  • Publisher Date: 18 Aug 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 129 mm


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