Flu
The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused it.
$44.70
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
9 January 2001
Summary
A national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now featuring a new epilogue about avian flu.
When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated forty million people virtually overnight. If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the US population with it, 1.5 million …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743203982 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0743203984 |
| Author: | Gina Bari Kolata |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Touchstone |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 9 January 2001 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 139mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
R. Z. SheppardTimemagazineA chilling read…packed with new information and astonishments.
Beryl Lieff Benderly The Washington Post Kolata commands the intelligent curiosity, well-honed reporting techniques, and smooth prose style of a top science reporter.
Dr. Jerome Groopman Boston Sunday Globe Moves at a rapid pace, with vivid prose and graphic scenes…A masterly recounting of medical history.
John R. Alden The Philadelphia Inquirer Kolata reports this story with all the fervor of Coleridge’s ancient mariner, gripping her readers in the book’s first paragraph and not letting go until her tale is told.
R. Z. Sheppard Time magazine A chilling read…packed with new information and astonishments.
Gina Bari Kolata
Gina Kolata is a science reporter for “The New York Times” and the author of “Clone: The Road to Dolly and Sex in America.” She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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