An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

An American Plague: The True and Terrify

📁 An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

📂 Fiction 📅 2003 🏛 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown . . . In a powerful, dramatic narrative, critically acclaimed author Jim Murphy describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on

An American Plague: The True and Terrify

📁 An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

✍ Jim Murphy 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Clarion Books 🌐 English

1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown . . . In a powerful, dramatic narrative, critically acclaimed author Jim Murphy describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on

The American Plague: The Untold Story of

📁 The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History

✍ Molly Caldwell Crosby 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Berkley Trade 🌐 English

In this account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' horrors,"*-and moving on to today's strain of the killer virus. Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, qua

The American Plague: The Untold Story of

📁 The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our Nation

📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Berkley Books

Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of

📁 Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793

✍ J. H. Powell; Kenneth R. Foster; Mary F. Jenkins; Anna Coxe Toogood 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 University of Pennsylvania Press 🌐 English

In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Y

Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of

📁 Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793

✍ J. H. Powell 📂 Library 📅 1993 🏛 University of Pennsylvania Press 🌐 English

2016 Reprint of 1949 Edition. Two parts in one volume. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The first major American yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia in July 1793 and peaked during the first weeks of October. Philadelphia, then the nation