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Your burning questions about sanitation and human waste can be put to rest this week over at City Room by journalist Rose George, author of The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters.

Paperback/US edition

Note the alternate subtitle in the alternating photos on her website. I wonder if the switch was hardcover/paperback change or a UK/US switch and if the latter, what that says about the way Britons versus Americans view poo.

Hardcover/UK edition

What began as “adventures” became “unmentionable.”

Tags: Human Waste, Literary Trash, Poop, Rose George, The Big Necessity

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