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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History - Molly Caldwell Crosby
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B002TZ3F5G
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
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Non Fiction, History, Literature, Book Club, Science, American, Health, Medical, American History, Medicine, Illness, Disease
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TeaStitchRead
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Title: The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History Author: Molly Caldwell Crosby Publish Date: September 7, 2007 Publisher: Berkley Books Format: Paperback Page Count: 368 pages Source: Library Date Read: April 25-27, 2020 Review This story is a de...
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Minor Characters
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Fascinating topic, I really wanted to like this, as I love in-depth histories of illness, plagues, and the fight against them. Unfortunately, I couldn't get past Crosby's florid style. My own preference is for more straight-forward, less hyperbolic writing, and this irked me enough that I couldn't...
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During a single summer in 1878, yellow fever killed more people in Memphis than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined. Memphis was turned into a city of corpses. Scientists, doctors, nuns--no one knew how to turn back the tide of disease. There was no kn...
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