num_pages: 208
description: Venomous Earth is the story of the worst chemical disaster in history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today's North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicine, mining and a cosmetic that killed two popes.
language: English
title: Venomous Earth: How Arsenic Caused the World's Worst Mass Poisoning
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan