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Black Death at the Golden Gate : the race to save America from the bubonic plague / David K. Randall.
Loaned to Another Library RC176.C2 R36 2019
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Randall, David K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plague--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.
- Plague.
- Plague--history.
- History.
- San Francisco.
- California--San Francisco.
- Medical Subjects:
- Plague--history.
- San Francisco.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
- Contents:
- Prologue: Fighting the devil with fire
- Across the sea
- The Nippon Maru
- The imperial city
- Criminal idiocy
- Fault lines
- Quarantine
- Oust the faker
- An infamous compact
- An impossible task
- A most peculiar team
- As soon as possible
- The unpleasant past
- For god's sake send food
- Two percent
- The worst corner of hell
- One of California's adopted sons
- Cast aside
- A hero once more
- Epilogue: how close we came.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393609455
- 0393609456
- OCLC:
- 1053999369
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