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OverviewIn 2020, the novel coronavirus gripped the world in a global pandemic and led to the death of hundreds of thousands. The source of the previously unknown virus? Bats. This phenomenon—in which a new pathogen comes to humans from wildlife—is known as spillover, and it may not be long before it happens again. Prior to the emergence of our latest health crisis, renowned science writer David Quammen was traveling the globe to better understand spillover’s devastating potential. For five years he followed scientists to a rooftop in Bangladesh, a forest in the Congo, a Chinese rat farm, and a suburban woodland in New York, and through high-biosecurity laboratories. He interviewed survivors and gathered stories of the dead. He found surprises in the latest research, alarm among public health officials, and deep concern in the eyes of researchers. Spillover delivers the science, the history, the mystery, and the human anguish of disease outbreaks as gripping drama. And it asks questions more urgent now than ever before: From what innocent creature, in what remote landscape, will the Next Big One emerge? Are pandemics independent misfortunes, or linked? Are they merely happening to us, or are we somehow causing them? What can be done? Quammen traces the origins of Ebola, Marburg, SARS, avian influenza, Lyme disease, and other bizarre cases of spillover, including the grim, unexpected story of how AIDS began from a single Cameroonian chimpanzee. The result is more than a clarion work of reportage. It’s also the elegantly told tale of a quest, through time and landscape, for a new understanding of how our world works—and how we can survive within it. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David QuammenPublisher: WW Norton & Co Imprint: WW Norton & Co Dimensions: Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.10cm Weight: 0.459kg ISBN: 9780393346619ISBN 10: 0393346617 Pages: 592 Publication Date: 04 October 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsThat [Quammen] hasn't won a nonfiction National Book Award or Pulitzer Prize is an embarrassment...Timely and terrifying. Mr. Quammen, a gifted science writer, combines physical and intellectual adventure. He also adds a powerful measure of moral witness: ecological destruction is greatly to blame for our current peril. -- Dwight Garner - The New York Times David Quammen [is] one of that rare breed of science journalists who blend exploration with a talent for synthesis and storytelling. -- Nathan Wolfe - Nature Riveting, terrifying, and inspiring. -- Georges Simenon - Wired David Quammen might be my favorite living science writer: amiable, erudite, understated, incredibly funny, profoundly humane. The best of his books, The Song of the Dodo, renders the relatively arcane field of island biogeography as gripping as a thriller. That bodes well for his new book, whose subject really is thriller-worthy: how deadly diseases (AIDS, SARS, Ebola) make the leap from animals to humans, and how, where, and when the next pandemic might emerge. -- Kathryn Schulz - New York Magazine [Spillover is] David Quammen's absorbing, lively and, yes, occasionally gory trek through the animal origins of emerging human diseases. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer As page turning as Richard Preston's The Hot Zone...[Quammen is] one of the best science writers. -- Seattle Times [Spillover] delivers news from the front lines of public health. It makes clear that animal diseases are inseparable from us because we are inseparable from the natural world. -- Philadelphia Tribune Starred review. ...a frightening but critically important book for anyone interested in learning about the prospects of the world's next major pandemic. -- Publishers Weekly Starred review. A wonderful, eye-opening account of humans versus disease. -- Kirkus Reviews Starred review. An essential work. -- Booklist Riveting, terrifying, and inspiring. --Georges Simenon Author InformationDavid 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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