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Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria
by Desowitz, Robert S
- Used
- first
- Condition
- near fine: mild shelfwear, else clean and tight, touch of foxing outside edge text block/near fine: mild shelfwear, else fine.
- ISBN 10
- 0393040844
- ISBN 13
- 9780393040845
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
WW Norton & Company, 1997. first edition. hardcover. near fine: mild shelfwear, else clean and tight, touch of foxing outside edge text block/near fine: mild shelfwear, else fine.. 8vo 256pp. First edition. From front flap: "We live in a medical fool's paradise, comforted, believing our sanitized Western world is safe from the microbes and parasites of the tropics. Not so, nor was it ever so. Past--and present--tell us that tropical diseases are as American as the heart attack; yellow fever lived happily for centuries in Philadelphia. Malaria liked it fine in Washington, not to mention in the Carolinas where it took right over. The Ebola virus stopped off in Baltimore, and the Mexican pig tapeworm has settled comfortably among orthodox Jews in Brooklyn. This book starts with the little creatures the first American immigrants brought with them on the long walk from Siberia 50,000 years ago. It moves on to all that unwanted baggage that sailed over with the Spanish, the French, and the English and killed native Americans in huge numbers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (The native Americans, it appears, got some revenge by passing syphilis--including Pinta, a feisty strain of syphilis--back to Europe with Columbus's returning sailors.)" #00794.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 711
- Title
- Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria
- Author
- Desowitz, Robert S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine: mild shelfwear, else clean and tight, touch of foxing outside edge text block
- Jacket Condition
- near fine: mild shelfwear, else fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393040844
- ISBN 13
- 9780393040845
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- medicine, disease, history, nonfiction, first edition
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About Matthew's Books LLC
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