The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco

The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase’s fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today’s headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the city’s Gilded Age. With a deep understanding of the effects on public health of politics, race, and geography, Chase shows how one city triumphed over perhaps the most frightening and deadly of all scourges.

• Author
• Marilyn Chase

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 304

• Publisher
• Random House Trade Paperbacks

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780375757082

• Settings
• San Francisco, California

• Genres
• history, science, medicine, medical, health, disease, historical, victorian

• Release date
• 2004