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Laura Spinney
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

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AuthorLaura Spinney
PublisherPublic Affairs
PublishedSep 12 2017
Book FormatAudio
ISBN-139781478992042
Dimensions5.5 X 5.8 X 1.1 inches
Weight 0.5 pounds
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CategoriesHistory > Modern - 20th Century
LanguageEnglish

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With a death toll between fifty and one hundred million people across the globe, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. Nevertheless, it exists in our memory as a mere footnote to World War IIn Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of this overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. Through the point of view of those who lived through it, she shows how the flu was shaped by the interaction of the virus with the humans it encountered and how this devastating natural experiment put both the vulnerability and the ingenuity of mankind to the test. Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology, and economics, Laura Spinney narrates a catastrophe that changed humanity for decades to come. In doing so, she reveals that the Spanish flu was as significant--if not more so--as the two world wars in shaping the modern world by disrupting, and often permanently altering, global politics, race relations, family structures, and ingenuity across medicine, religion, and the arts.

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Laura Spinney is an author and science journalist. She has published two novels in English, The Doctor (Methuen, 2001) and The Quick (Fourth Estate, 2007). Her third book of non-fiction, Rue Centrale, came out in 2013 from Editions L’Age d’Homme (in French and in English), and her fourth, a tale of the Spanish flu called Pale Rider, was published by Jonathan Cape in June 2017. Derborence: Where the devils came down, her translation of Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz’s best-loved novel, was published by Skomlin (formerly Onesuch) Press in 2018.

Her literary agent is Natasha Fairweather of Rogers, Coleridge & White in London. She also writes on science for National Geographic, The Economist, Nature, New Scientist and The Telegraph among others.

She lives in Paris.

Source: lauraspinney.com

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