Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase

Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco



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Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco Marilyn Chase
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ISBN: 9781588362858
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

“San Francisco in 1900 was a Gold Rush boomtown settling into a gaudy middle age. . . . It had a pompous new skyline with skyscrapers nearly twenty stories tall, grand hotels, and Victorian mansions on Nob Hill. . . . The wharf bristled with masts and smokestacks from as many as a thousand sailing ships and steamers arriving each year. . . . But the harbor would not be safe for long. Across the Pacific came an unexpected import, bubonic plague. Sailing from China and Hawaii into the unbridged arms of the Golden Gate, it arrived aboard vessels bearing rich cargoes, hopeful immigrants, and infected vermin. The rats slipped out of their shadowy holds, scuttled down the rigging, and alighted on the wharf. Uphill they MORE EBOOKS:
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