Nine Pints - A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood

Informationen zum Autor Rose George is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World (long-listed for the Ulysses Reportage Prize) , The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste (Portobello, 2008; shortlisted for the BMA Book Prize) and Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything (Portobello, 2013; winner of a Mountbatten Maritime Award), and Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood (Portobello, 2018). Rose writes frequently for the Guardian , New Statesman and many other publications, and her two TED talks, on sanitation and seafaring, have had 3 million views. http://rosegeorge.com/site/ Klappentext From a prize-winning writer, a fascinating exploration of blood: the stuff of life, the stuff of nightmares, and one of the most expensive liquids on the planet.

Product details

• Authors: Rose George, George Rose
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781846276149
• ISBN: 978-1-84627-614-9
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); HEALTH & FITNESS / General, popular science, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Popular medicine & health, Social and cultural history, Popular medicine and health