Ship fever
Subtitle: stories
By: Andrea Barrett
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780393038538; 9780393316001
Subjects: American Historical fiction; Scientists; Fiction
Description: One novella and seven stories dealing with science and set in the 19th century. In The behavior of the hawkweeds, the spirit of Mendel, the discoverer of the laws of heredity, haunts a geneticist of whose work Mendel disapproves; in Birds with no feet, Darwin's theory of evolution provides a zoologist with consolation for his personal misfortunes; in The English pupil, Linnaeus, who brought order to botany, must deal with the mental disorder of his advancing age. By the author of The Middle Kingdom.
Table of contents: title: The behavior of the Hawkweeds; title: The English pupil; title: The littoral zone; title: Rare bird; title: Soroche; title: Birds with no feet; title: The Marburg sisters; title: Ship fever