Mary Roach can never resist going just that bit further, searching out the most arcane information on her chosen subject and in Gulp, a story of the physicality of eating, you just know it won’t end there – you know it won’t end with what goes in, there will be a lot of what goes out as well. Mind you, she has the knack of finding out just what we’ve all been longing to know, and one has to admire her talent for nosing out the experts – some in subjects you’ve never heard of, admire too her gung-ho approach to self-experimentation. I think she’s the tops, a clever writer who blends the science facts with humour and amazement, if you’ve not read her before then start here and I guarantee you’ll have to go back and search out her back list.
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2014.
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In this international bestseller, 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.
Gulp Adventures on the Alimentary Canal features in the following genres: Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Popular Science, eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Science: general issues, Mathematics and Science
Gulp Adventures on the Alimentary Canal is available in Paperback
Gulp Adventures on the Alimentary Canal was written by Mary Roach and published by Oneworld Publications
Gulp Adventures on the Alimentary Canal has 352 pages
£10.79
