40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World

40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World
ISBN-10
1451687869
ISBN-13
9781451687866
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
443
Language
English
Published
2013-10-22
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Authors
Howard G Buffett, Howard W. Buffet

Description

The son of legendary investor Warren Buffet relates how he set out to help nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security through his passion of farming, in forty stories of lessons learned.

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