From head to toe to breast to behind, Charles Hodgson's
Carnal Knowledge
is a delightfully intoxicating tour of the words we use to describe our bodies. Did you know:
-
eye
is one of the oldest written words in the English language?
callipygian
means "having beautiful buttocks"?
gam,
a slang word for "leg," comes from the French word
jambe
?
A treat for anyone who gets a kick out of words,
is also the perfect gift for anyone interested in the human body and the many (many, many) ways it's been described.