A Year on the Bog

In 2002 while in Japan, Andy McBean set out on a remarkable mission—to record every single visit to the toilet made over a year. Not just the bizarre ones involving attacks with fire extinguishers or suffering from hypothermia, but every single visit. It was a grand vision encompassing not just the minutiae of bowel movements but the broad social sweep of environment and society—the people and the places, the act of getting to and getting from—as he puts it so eloquently in his foreword "th...