Desmond Morris has traveled to over sixty countries conducting studies on human behavior, countless body positions, facial expressions, and gestures. From all of these, he has selected over 600 different gestures.

- In Christian countries, crossing fingers means protection, but in Turkey it may signal the end of a friendship.
- The common gesture of drivers opening their palm towards someone's face has a different meaning in some countries.
- We all laugh, but in some places, laughing out loud is considered rude.

What is polite in one region is rude in another. What is friendly here is hostile elsewhere.

In your hands, you hold an unusual and provocative book that guides us through the world of gestures and will captivate all those interested in the language of the body.