Rose George

The Big Necessity

Adventures In The World Of Human Waste

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Produktbeschreibung

Rose George confronts the last taboo and takes us on an unprecedented tour through a world knee-deep in pestilential sewage - the most significant global issue about which few talk or think.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Granta Books / Portobello
• New ed.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9781846270703
• ISBN-10: 1846270707
• Artikelnr.: 26035563

Autorenporträt

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