The Barbary Plague
| Author | : Marilyn Chase |
| Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2004-03-09 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780375757082 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0375757082 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (082 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Barbary Plague by : Marilyn Chase
Download or read book The Barbary Plague written by Marilyn Chase and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase’s fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today’s headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the city’s Gilded Age. With a deep understanding of the effects on public health of politics, race, and geography, Chase shows how one city triumphed over perhaps the most frightening and deadly of all scourges.