Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary CanalThe irresistible, ever curious, and always best selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. Americas funniest science writer (Washington Post) 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

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