The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco

Author: Marilyn Chase
Title: The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
Publication: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004

Description: Paperback. Riveting tale of San Francisco in 1900 dealing with the bubonic plague. Softcover in illustrated wraps. Includes bibliography, academic notes and an index. 276 pp.

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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.

Seller ID: 2000

Subject: Medicine, US History



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