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Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World
by Desowitz, Robert S
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0393040844
- ISBN 13
- 9780393040845
- Seller
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Ashmore, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Synopsis
This “real life thriller” (Kirkus Reviews) of how tropical diseases have invaded North americanca is a fascinating mix of history and scientific adventure and “bulges with astonishing and instructive information” (Civilization). We have long believed that our sanitized Western world is safe from microbes and parasites of the tropics but according to Desowitz this is not so. Tropical diseases are as american as the heart attack.
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- Bookseller
- Lawrence Jones
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027570
- Title
- Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World
- Author
- Desowitz, Robert S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393040844
- ISBN 13
- 9780393040845
- Publisher
- W W Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Tropical Medicine America Immigrants Siberia Native Americans Syphilis Pinta Columbus Slavery Malaria Yellow Fever Kid Rockefeller Battling Hookworm Doomsday Bugs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine / Health / Psych;
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- First Edition
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