Rats, lice, and history
Subtitle: being a study in biography, which, after twelve preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever ...
By: by Hans Zinsser.
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; Distributed by Workman Pub. Co.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Typhus fever -- History; Rats as carriers of disease -- History; Lice as carriers of disease -- History
Description: An exploration of the scourge of plague and disease and its impact on society and history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published: Boston, 1935.