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How I Learned to Understand the World

By: Hans Rosling, Dr Anna Paterson
Narrated by: Simon Slater
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This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.

It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that made the late Hans Rosling, author of worldwide best seller Factfulness, the most popular researcher of our time. 

How I Learned to Understand the World is Hans Rosling's own story of how a young scientist became a revolutionary thinker and takes us from the swelter of an emergency clinic in Mozambique to the World Economic Forum at Davos. 

In collaboration with Swedish journalist Fanny Härgestam, Hans Rosling wrote his memoir with the same joy of storytelling that made a whole world listen when he spoke.

©2020 Rosling Education (P)2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Professionals & Academics Science & Technology Africa
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I would highly recommend this book either before or after Factfulness.

If you enjoy books like Prisoners of Geography……I think you’ll love this.

Fascinating and fantastic!

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I loved Factfulness by Hans Rosling, so naturally turned to this memoir a few months later. It servers as a beautiful reminder and deep dive on some of his best stories, without going into the lecturing that the other book had. It did feel like a sudden end - missing some kind of summary or overall thought on his life’s achievements. It saddens me to think that time ran out for him.

The story of ‘Factfullness’

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We can all learn something from Hans Rosling's life story. An inspiring journey through the 20th century and the changes the world went through, seen by the eyes of this Swedish academic with a insatiable desire to make this planet a better place.

Wonderful story, we can all learn from

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Captivating, beautifully narrated, essential reading for the wide-eyed audience and the busy policymakers alike.

Highly recommended.

Captivating

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Great for learning about this amazing man, his amazing family and for learning more about his work.

Really interesting

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