EAN: 9781784702403

PALE RIDER - LAURA SPINNEY KARTONIERT (TB)

Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer - and
discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic.    'Both a saga of tragedies
and a detective story... Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past'
Guardian    With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach  the
Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster  not only of the twentieth century 
but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet  in our popular conception it exists largely
as a footnote to World War I.   In Pale Rider   Laura Spinney recounts the story of an
overlooked pandemic  tracing it from Alaska to Brazil  from Persia to Spain  and from South
Africa to Odessa. She shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the
humans it encountered  and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and
the vulnerability of humans to the test.   Laura Spinney demonstrates that the Spanish flu was
as significant - if not more so - as two world wars in shaping the modern world  in disrupting
and often permanently altering  global politics  race relations  family structures  and
thinking across medicine  religion and the arts.   'Weaves together global history and medical
science to great effect ... Riveting .' Sunday Times

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