David Quammen

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Breathless

The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

Beschreibung

David Quammen expertly shows how strange new viruses emerge from animals into humans as we disrupt wild ecosystems, causing global catastrophe. He explains why this coronavirus will probably be a 'forever virus,' in this frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting in an international effort to understand and control SARS-CoV-2.

Autor

David Quammen's sixteen previous books include The Tangled Tree, The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Premio Letterario Merck. He has written for the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, the Atlantic, National Geographic and Outside, among other publications, and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion, and with two Russian wolfhounds, a cross-eyed cat, and a rescue python. Visit him at DavidQuammen.com

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781529114188
• ISBN-10: 1529114187
• Artikelnr.: 67323084

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