The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco

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.

Author: Marilyn Chase
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 03/09/2004
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780375757082