An edition of The Barbary plague
(2003)
The Barbary Plague
The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
by Marilyn Chase
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Describes an epidemic of bubonic plague that erupted in turn-of-the-century San Francisco and the efforts of scientists to contain the disease, discover its source, and eradicate it from the city.
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
March 18, 2003, Random House
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The Barbary plague: the Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
2003, Random House
in English
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Book Details
First Sentence
"THE NEW YEAR OF 1900 ushered in dangerous times."
Table of Contents
Prologue
The year of the rat
A lively corpse
The boy from Catfish Creek
Hiding the dead
A new quarantine
The wolf doctor
White men's funerals
Seal of silence
New blood
The bite of a flea
Wong Chung, detective
Send blue ASAP
The perimeter widens
The seamstresses
Earthquake
Comfort the people
The rattery
Ain't it awful?
The pied piper
Epilogue
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