Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World [Adapted for Young People]
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (998 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00B3Z5KGU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 411 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Certainly this luminous and powerful book will change the way you see it.". "Mountains Beyond Mountains unfolds with the force of a gathering revelation," says Annie Dillard, and Jonathan Harr says, "Farmer wants to change the world. He enlists the help of the Gates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.'s World Health Organization, and others in his quest to cure the world. Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the best sellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the "master of the non-fiction narrative". Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life's calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to t