Gulp

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Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Mary Roach

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One World
18 March 2013

Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Humour

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

By: Mary Roach
Imprint: One World
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 23mm
ISBN: 9781851689934
ISBN 10: 1851689931
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 18 March 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mary Roach is the bestselling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, and Packing for Mars (9781851688234). She has written for The Guardian, Wired, BBC Focus, GQ and Vogue, among many other publications. She lives in California.

Reviews for Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

'Disgustingly good... Roach takes a superbly witty prod at our innards' The Times 'Witty, illuminating and at times astonishing' Mail on Sunday 'Witty [and] enjoyable' Independent on Sunday 'The best kind of lavatory reading... exhaustive and irreverent' Sunday Telegraph, paperback review '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' Evening Standard 'Far away her funniest and most sparkling book' New York Times 'Engrossingly gross' Scotsman 'The best kind of lavatory reading' Sunday Telegraph 'Insightful, sharp science writing that will have you snorting with laughter is Mary Roach's speciality' New Scientist 'The funniest book [of the year] by far... almost every page made me laugh out loud' Sunday Times, best science books of 2013 'Roach writes clearly, with gallows humour...compelling' Evening Standard 'A wonderful read' BBC Focus 'Joyously funny and intrepidly smart' Saga