num_pages: 304
description: The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase’s fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today’s headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the city’s Gilded Age. With a deep understanding of the effects on public health of politics, race, and geography, Chase shows how one city triumphed over perhaps the most frightening and deadly of all scourges.
language: English
title: The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
titlecomplete: The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
genres: Historical, Science, Health, Medicine, Disease, Victorian, American History, Medical, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 1060
places: San Francisco, California
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks