Yellow Fever Books

Hosack's Folly: A Novel of Old New York "High drama set in 1820s New York City…vivid…satisfying."—Publishers Weekly

A broiling summer in the 1820s, and the specter of yellow fever hangs over New York City. The eminent physician David Hosack (who as a young man attended Alexander Hamilton at his fatal duel with Aaron Burr) struggles to head off a disastrous epidemic, but is thwarted by powerful merchants and corrupt politicians who aim to cover up the fever threat at all costs. Brought down by scandal, Dr. Hosack turns to his enterprising young assistant, Albert Dash, to expose the truth. But Albert has distractions of his own: he is penniless, and in love with a brilliant young actress on the brink of fame. Meanwhile, a powerful newspaper editor and a visionary architect team up on a scheme of their own to save the city: the Croton Aqueduct, the most ambitious public works project since Roman times.

Climaxing in a mass exodus as a deadly fever epidemic sweeps through old New York, Hosack's Folly is historical fiction at its most thrilling.

Yellow Fever In the summer of 1998, the Tour de France¹s bubble burst in the most dramatic way. It was an extraordinary race, not only because of the doping accusations that dogged it from Dublin to Paris but also because of the shimmering virtuosity of charismatic Italian climber Marco Pantani and the formidable defense of outgoing champion Jan Ullrich. Out on the road, every tense day became a lifetime as sport and scandal fused. Each thrilling moment from eventual champion Patani was matched by brutal and shocking revelations of drug abuse from zealous French authorities. A fixture in French culture since 1903 and undoubtedly the world¹s most famous race, the Tour de France became an unwelcome stranger in its own land. Now, journalist Jeremy Whittle, who was there throughout the race, gives us the inside story of the ³Planet Tour.²

Chita: A Memory of Last Island (Banner Book) Hearn paints a colorful portrait of life in the marshy Gulf Coast city of New Orleans, focusing on a young white girl who is adopted by a Spanish family.Travelling south from New Orleans to the Islands, you pass through a strange land into a strange sea, by various winding waterways. You can journey to the Gulf by lugger if you please; but the trip may be made much more rapidly and agreeably on some one of those light, narrow steamers, built especially for bayou-travel, which usually receive passengers at a point not far from the foot of old Saint-Louis Street, hard by the sugar-landing, where there is ever a pushing and flocking of steam craft - all striving for place to rest their white breasts against the levee, side by side, - like great weary swans.

Angel AgnesThe Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Images of the original pages are available through the Wright American Fiction Project of the Library Electronic Text Service of Indiana University. http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/

William Crawford Gorgas: His Life and Work This book has an interesting pedigree!!! It was owned by H. D. Corbusier (and is signed by him!) who organized the Orthopedic Section of the Surgeon Generals' Office when General Gorgas was in charge, July 1917!! Major General William Crawford Gorgas (October 3, 1854, in Mobile, Alabama -- July 3, 1920, in London) was a United States physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914-18). He is best known for his work in abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria by controlling the mosquitoes that carry them at a time when he met with considerable skepticism and opposition to such measures.

Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793: With Related Texts Set during the epic Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793, Charles Brockden Brown's classic gothic novel Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 connects the outbreak with the upheavals of the revolutionary era and the murderous financial networks of Atlantic slavery.

This edition of Arthur Mervyn offers selections from key contemporary texts as well as excerpts from Brown's own writings on slavery, race, and the uses of history in fiction.

Tumbleweed Fever In the Oklahoma Territory of the old west, Devlin Brown is trying to redeem herself for a past as an outlaw. Working as a rider on a cattle ranch, she meets Sarah Tolliver, a widow with two children and a successful ranch, but no way to protect it from the ruthless men who would rather see her fail. Sparks fly when the former outlaw teams up with the beautiful, yet headstrong, young Tolliver.

"The prayer that has been mine for twenty years, that I might be permitted in some way or some time to do something to alleviate human suffering, has been answered!"
—Major Walter Reed, writing to his wife, New Year's Eve, 1900

As he wrote to his wife of his stunning success in the mission to identify the cause of yellow fever and find a way to eradicate the disease, Walter Reed had answered the prayers of millions. For more than 250 years, the yellow jack had ravaged the Americas, bringing death to millions and striking panic in entire populations. The very mention of its presence in a city or town produced instant chaos as thousands fled in terror, leaving the frail, the weak, and the ill to fend for themselves.

Yellow Jack tracks the history of this deadly scourge from its earliest appearance in the Caribbean 350 years ago, telling the compelling story of a few extraordinarily brave souls who struggled to understand and eradicate yellow fever. Risking everything for the cause of science and humanity, Reed and his teammates on the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Board invaded the heart of enemy territory in Cuba to pursue the disease—and made one of the twentieth century's greatest medical discoveries. This thrilling adventure tells the timeless tale of their courage, ingenuity, and triumph in the face of adversity.

Yellow Fever: A Deadly Disease Poised to Kill Again Yellow Fever is unlikely to be found on a list of potential health threats facing Americans today. Most people, if they have heard of the disease at all, would consider it a historical curiosity from a bygone era. In this fascinating study of a once-terrifying pandemic, author James L. Dickerson makes it clear that the disease could reemerge with deadly virulence. In a vividly told narrative, filled with poignant and graphic scenes culled from historical archives, Dickerson recounts the history of one of the most feared diseases in the United States. From the late 18th to the early 20th century, Yellow Fever killed Americans by the tens of thousands in the Northeast and throughout the South. In Memphis alone, five thousand people died in 1878.

Dickerson describes how public health officials gradually eliminated the disease from this country, so that by the mid 1950s it had ceased to be of much concern to the public at large. However, to this day no cure has been found. As a mosquito-borne viral infection, Yellow Fever is impervious to antibiotics, and it continues to wreak havoc in parts of South America and Africa.

Focusing on the present, Dickerson discusses the potential threat of Yellow Fever as a biological warfare agent in the hands of terrorists. Also of concern to public health researchers is the effect of global warming on mosquito populations. Even a one-to-two degree warming enables disease-bearing mosquitoes to move into areas once protected by colder weather. He concludes with a discussion of current precautionary efforts based on interviews with experts and analysis of available studies.

Both absorbing history and a timely wake-up call for the present, Yellow Fever is fascinating and important reading.

In this remarkable account, evolutionary biologist Christopher Wills takes us on a voyage of discovery through the exotic pasts of the viruses and bacteria that periodically emerge with such disastrous results for our species. It is our knowledge of their secret lives, the eons spent quietly passing in and out of myriad other life forms, mutating and coadapting, that gives us hope of taming them. By putting these organisms—from bubonic plague to Ebola—at center-stage, Wills shows how we will eventually master them.

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