The Last and Longest Mile - Yohei Sasakawa's Struggle to Eliminate Leprosy

The story of the fight to eradicate leprosy

About the author

Fumihiko Takayama is a prominent writer of fiction and nonfiction. 'Fireworks', his critical biography of the author Tamio Hojo, who succumbed to leprosy aged 23, won the prestigious Oya Soichi Nonfiction Prize and Kodansha Nonfiction Award. 'The Last and Longest Mile' is Takayama's first book to appear in English translation.

Product details

• Authors: Fumihiko Takayama
• Publisher: Hurst Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781787383401
• ISBN: 978-1-78738-340-1
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; History: specific events & topics, MEDICAL / Public Health, HISTORY / General, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, Personal & public health, History of Medicine, Infectious & contagious diseases, History: specific events and topics, Personal and public health / health education, Infectious and contagious diseases