The fever trail : in search of the cure for malaria / Mark Honigsbaum.

  • Honigsbaum, Mark
Date:
[2002]
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About this work

Description

Relates the mission of three British explorers to find the cinchona tree, the source of a medicine that supposedly had cured a Spanish countess of malaria, in an account of geopolitical rivalry that pitted the New World against the Old.

Publication/Creation

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2002]

Physical description

[xx], 307 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : black and white illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Contributors

Edition

First American edition.

Notes

Previously published: London : Macmillan, 2001.
Previously published with subtitle: the hunt for the cure for malaria.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292) and index.

Contents

Fever -- Cure -- Curse -- Vision -- Philanthropist -- Quest -- Spruce's ridge -- Shadow in the forest -- Tale of two seeds -- Great white hope -- Malaria fighters -- Vaccine hunters.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FX /HON
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0374154694
  • 9780374154691