A pleasure to read, full of people, dramatic situations,
individual foibles and collective hard work...The story, 100 years
old, has much to teach us about today.?
?The New York Times Book Review
?An involving medical detective story...richly atmospheric [and]
consistently enthralling.?
?San Francisco Chronicle
?Chase, with her elegant, subtle writing, brings alive the human
victims, particularly the often-tragic lives of Chinese laborers
trying to make a life for themselves.?
?USA
內容簡介:
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.