For one thing, the first movie memorably stars a tiny Raquel Welch, although a 1993 remake of the Disney movie does feature Sally Field voicing the cat’s lines, in what might be considered a similar miniaturization of an outsize screen personality.)īOOK REVIEW - 'The Body: A Guide for Occupants', by Bill Bryson (Doubleday, 464 pages). ( Fantastic Voyage should not be confused with Disney’s 1963 Incredible Journey, in which two lost dogs and a cat travel the northern forests of Canada to get home. Readers of a certain age may flash back to 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Voyage, a 1966 movie of forgettable plot but remarkable special effects, in which a team of scientists shrink to microbial size and travel the body’s tubes and vessels against a background of giant blood cells and shiny, pulsating organs. Now Bryson has turned to the human body with The Body: A Guide for Occupants, meandering around its organs in his usual leisurely, amused way, always on the lookout for interesting landmarks and overlooked perspectives. He’s an award-winning author whose writing has led him up the Appalachian Trail, around the United States, and Britain, and through the history of science and language, a writer whose breadth of interest and felicitous style make both fact and anecdote go down easy.
Bill Bryson is an excellent companion for a trip - it can be a physical journey or an intellectual one, doesn’t really matter which.
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