Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World - Hardcover

Spinney, Laura

 
9781610397674: Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1610397673 ISBN 13: 9781610397674
Verlag: PublicAffairs, 2017

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The haunting story of a virus that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times

“Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story.” —The Guardian

The flu pandemic of 1918–1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth—from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I.
 
In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus traveled across the globe, exposing mankind’s vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology, and economics, Pale Rider masterfully recounts the little-known catastrophe that forever changed humanity.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Laura Spinney is a science journalist. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic, Nature, The Economist, and The Guardian, among others. She is also the author of Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, the story of the Indo-European languages. She lives in Paris, France.

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Verlag
PublicAffairs
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1610397673
ISBN 13 
9781610397674
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Anzahl der Seiten
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