Another of Desmond Morris's investigations into human body language. This study is concerned with more than 600 hand gestures and facial expressions from all over the world. He categorizes them under the headings: meaning; action; background and locality.
Desmond Morris was born in 1928. Educated at Birmingham and Oxford universities, he became the Curator of Mammals at London Zoo in 1959, a post he held for eight years.
In 1967 he published The Naked Ape which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and has changed the way we view our own species forever.
An accomplished artist, TV presenter, film maker and writer, Desmond Morris's books have been published in over thirty-six countries.
