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. Nine Pints reveals the richness and wonder of the potent red fluid that courses around our bodies, unseen but miraculous.
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. Nine Pints reveals the richness and wonder of the potent red fluid that courses around our bodies, unseen but miraculous.
Rose George is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World, and (for Portobello) The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste, which was judged one of the best books of 2008 by the Economist, and one of the top ten science books of the same year by the American Library Association, and Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that brings you Ninety Percent of Everything, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, and won the Mountbatten Literature Award by the British Maritime Foundation. Rose writes frequently for the Guardian, the New Statesman and many others, and her two TED talks, on sanitation and seafaring, have had 3 million views. http://rosegeorge.com/site
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