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Lifeblood: How To Change The World, One Dead Mosquito At A Time
Alex Perry
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Description for Lifeblood: How To Change The World, One Dead Mosquito At A Time
Hardback. This is the true story of the courageous mission to eradicate malaria from the globe. It weaves together science and history to explore why a disease that has been all but eradicated in the Western world continues to be the scourge of Africa. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1H; GTF; MBN; MJCJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
One day in 2006, the rich, well connected but very private philanthropist Ray Chambers flicked through the holiday snaps of his friend, the development economist Jeffrey Sachs, and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of sleeping Malawian children. 'They're not sleeping,' Sachs tells a shocked Chambers. 'They're in malarial comas.' A few days later, they were all dead. So begins Chambers' mission to eradicate a disease that has haunted mankind since before medicine began, still infects half a billion people a year, and kills a million of them. The campaign draws in presidents, celebrities, scientists and enormous funding ... Read more
One day in 2006, the rich, well connected but very private philanthropist Ray Chambers flicked through the holiday snaps of his friend, the development economist Jeffrey Sachs, and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of sleeping Malawian children. 'They're not sleeping,' Sachs tells a shocked Chambers. 'They're in malarial comas.' A few days later, they were all dead. So begins Chambers' mission to eradicate a disease that has haunted mankind since before medicine began, still infects half a billion people a year, and kills a million of them. The campaign draws in presidents, celebrities, scientists and enormous funding ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849041577
SKU
V9781849041577
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About Alex Perry
Alex Perry is the Africa bureau chief for TIME magazine. He has worked as a correspondent for TIME since 2001, covering Africa, the Middle East and Asia from postings in Hong Kong, New Delhi and Cape Town. He has won numerous awards for his journalism. His first book, Falling Off The Edge: Globalization, World Peace and Other Lies, was published ... Read more
Reviews for Lifeblood: How To Change The World, One Dead Mosquito At A Time
'This little gem of a book heartens the reader by showing how eagerly an array of American billionaires, including Bill Gates and the New Jersey investor Ray Chambers (the book's protagonist), are using concepts of efficient management to improve the rest of the world. Lifeblood nominally chronicles the global effort to eradicate malaria, but it is really about changes that ... Read more