Spillover von David Quammen

Spillover
Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
ISBN/EAN: 9780099522850
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 592 S.
Einband: Paperback
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A gripping and timely book about the transmission of highly dangerous diseases from animal to human populations. 'A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story' Walter Isaacson
David Quammen's sixteen previous books include The Tangled Tree, The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Premio Letterario Merck. He has written for the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, the Atlantic, National Geographic and Outside, among other publications, and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion, and with two Russian wolfhounds, a cross-eyed cat, and a rescue python. Visit him at DavidQuammen.com