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Gulp

Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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Gulp

Auteur(s): Mary Roach
Narrateur(s): Emily Woo Zeller
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Best-selling author Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. Roach takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour.

The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: The questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis?

In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of - or has the courage to ask. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal. With Roach as our guide, we travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists - who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts. Like all of Roach’s books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies.

©2013 Mary Roach (P)2013 Tantor Science Sciences biologiques Sciences sociales Troubles et maladies
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Love the narrator and the material. Keeps you enthralled the whole way through.
Very informative material plus some information that a person can find very helpful.

Amazing book

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An incredibly fascinating look into your mouth and deep down through the horrible tube of your body

Disgusting and Enthralling

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I only wish it was a bit longer. her books are a few ours shorter than other books.

educational and entertaining as always.

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