About this title: In a summer of panic and death in 1878, more than half the population of Memphis, Tennessee, fled the yellow fever epidemic. In her account, Crosby profiles several scientists, some of whom died in their fight to identify the cause of this disease that remains a threat to this very day.
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780425217757ISBN:0425217752
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Like new! ! Small nick of damage on the corner of the lower left side-but everything else look in new like condition! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780425217757ISBN:0425217752
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780425217757ISBN:0425217752
Description: Very Good + 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Pristine text, unread! Light shelfwear. read more
Description: Berkley Books. NY. 2006. First edition. ISBN 0-425-21202-5. Hardcover. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. 308 pages. Very good condition in very good dust jacket. Pictures by email upon request. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780425212028ISBN:0425212025
Description: New in new dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 308 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Berkley Books, New York
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780425212028ISBN:0425212025
Description: Illustrated. Fine in Fine jacket. This book has a tan and black dj with black and dark red lettering on the front and spine. Very mild edgewear; remainder mark on lower page edge; else Fine. Inner pages clean, binding tight. Illustrated with black-and-white photos, this book tells the horrible history of yellow fever, a disease that killed thousands and changed the course of U.S. history. 308 pages, including index; approx. 6"x9". read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Berkley Books, First Edition June 1990, New York
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780425212028ISBN:0425212025
Description: Good in Good jacket. Private Owner A good hard cover with a good dust jacket. History. Nonfiction. shelf QQ-5. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780425212028ISBN:0425212025
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 367 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Date Published: 2007-09-04
ISBN-13:9780425217757ISBN:0425217752
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780425217757. read more
"Want to learn about the most horrible disease to affect our country before 1900? A great story about a disease I never realized the horror of - seriously, just as bad as Ebola, except slower. Those pesky mosquitoes!! The best part of the book comes at the end when the author focuses on the doctors who figured out what caused yellow fever. The story of Jesse Lazear will break your heart, and you'll learn why Walter Reed is so famous."
"i like this book but it focuses in just a couple of cases and talks more about the scientist and other people affected with yellow fever more than it does with the symptoms of yellow fever. That would be the only thing i did not really like about it but other than that it talks about how it affected Memphis, Tennessee and Cuba and other areas of the world but those two locations are were most of the story takes place and it talks about the efforts scientist made at the time and how hard it was to prove the theory that Yellow fever was spread through mosquitoes and it has other theories as well as strange remedies that people used at the time and how doctors and medicine was not seen as a respectable job to have.. A good book and at certain time it makes a connection between yellow fever and slaves because they were more resistant than whites and other immigrants and they also make a inference that if at the time the federal government had more power than state government alot of lives could had been saved and the ending of this book is spectacular"
"Want to learn about the most horrible disease to affect our country before 1900? A great story about a disease I never realized the horror of - seriously, just as bad as Ebola, except slower. Those pesky mosquitoes!! The best part of the book comes at the end when the author focuses on the doctors who figured out what caused yellow fever. The story of Jesse Lazear will break your heart, and you'll learn why Walter Reed is so famous."
"This narrative nonfictional novel follows the disease of yellow fever from its origins in the jungles of West Africa to its arrival and thus adaptation to the US. The effect on US cities, particularly Memphis and New Orleans was incalculable. Crosby is especially good at describing the horrendous conditions of Memphis, or the "city of corpses" as it is referred to. It also chronicles the countless quest of doctors and scientists to find its causes and cures. Specifically that of General Walter Reed. Crosby profiles their journey to figure out the correct method of transmission and how to ultimately stop the spread of the feared 'yellow jack' disease. She even goes into great detail about one of history's most controversial human studies. Many doctors, nurses, and soldiers sacrificed their lives in hopes of finding a cure for the disease that ultimately shaped world history and pubic health."
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