David Quammen

Spillover

Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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Produktbeschreibung

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from and why these diseases emerge and he explores the terrifying question of what might the next big one might be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Norton
• Seitenzahl: 587
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 139mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780393346619
• ISBN-10: 0393346617
• Artikelnr.: 37668056

Autorenporträt

David Quammen is the author of The Song of the Dodo, among other books. He has been honored with the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an award in the art of the essay from PEN, and (three times) the National Magazine Award. Quammen is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.

Rezensionen

A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story Walter Isaacson