Rumbles

Rumbles is a thoroughly researched and engaging journey through the secret history of the gut.

Cultural historian Elsa Richardson travels from Ancient Greece to Victorian England, eighteenth-century France to modern America, introducing readers to a diverse cast of characters including Edwardian body builders, hunger-striking suffragettes, medieval alchemists, and more.

The book examines religious texts, etiquette guides, satirical cartoons, and political pamphlets to answer the millennia-old question: Are we really ruled by our stomachs?

It combines rigorous scholarship with entertaining storytelling to explore how different cultures and time periods have understood this fascinating organ.