New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers
Subtitle: Tales of Parasites and People
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: July 1983
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780380640065
Subjects: General; Fiction - General; Addresses, essays, lectures; Biology; Nature/Ecology
First sentence: Some time ago, while at London's Heathrow Airport on the way to Burma, I had occasion to use what the English genteelly refer to as the public convenience, and there I was startled to find a government poster warning the traveler of malaria, symbolized by a Godzilla-sized mosquito pouncing on a helpless world.