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Author Rosling, Hans, author.

Title How I learned to understand the world : a memoir / Hans Rosling with Fanny Härgestam ; translated from the Swedish by Anna Paterson.

Publisher New York : Flatiron Books, 2020.
©2020

ISBN 9781250266897 (hardcover)
1250266890 (hardcover)



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 Holland Branch Adult  92 Rosling, Hans    AVAILABLE  ---
 Main Adult  92 Rosling, Hans    AVAILABLE  ---
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Edition First U.S. edition.
Description x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note(S) "Originally published in Sweden under the title Hur jag lärde mig förstå världen by Natur & Kultur." -- Title page verso.
Contents Foreword / by Agneta Rosling -- From illiteracy to academic excellence -- Discovering the world -- To Nacala -- From medical practice to research -- From research to teaching -- From the lecture theater to Davos -- Ebola -- Afterword / by Fanny Härgestam -- Appendix: On cassava.
Summary The late WHO [World Health Organization] advisor, co-founder of Sweden's Doctors Without Borders traces his remarkable career spent in environments ranging from an emergency clinic in Mozambique to the World Economic Forum at Davos.
Note Translated form the Swedish.
Subject Rosling, Hans.
Subject(S) Physicians -- Sweden -- Biography.
Physicians -- Biography.
World health.
Autobiographies.
Added Name(S) Härgestam, Fanny, author.
Paterson, Anna, translator.
Added Title Hur jag lärde mig förstå världen. English.
ISBN 9781250266897 (hardcover)
1250266890 (hardcover)