The Barbary Plague
Subtitle: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
Publisher: Random House
Published: March 18, 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780375504969
First sentence: THE NEW YEAR OF 1900 ushered in dangerous times.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: The year of the rat; title: A lively corpse; title: The boy from Catfish Creek; title: Hiding the dead; title: A new quarantine; title: The wolf doctor; title: White men's funerals; title: Seal of silence; title: New blood; title: The bite of a flea; title: Wong Chung, detective; title: Send blue ASAP; title: The perimeter widens; title: The seamstresses; title: Earthquake; title: Comfort the people; title: The rattery; title: Ain't it awful?; title: The pied piper; title: Epilogue