An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Newbery Honor Book)
Jim Murphy
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An American Plague: The Jim Murphy epub An American Plague: The Jim Murphy pdf download An American Plague: The Jim Murphy pdf file An American Plague: The Jim Murphy audiobook An American Plague: The Jim Murphy book review An American Plague: The Jim Murphy summary | #20272 in Books | Clarion Books | 2003-06-23 | 2003-06-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x.74 x7.00l,1.47 | File type: PDF | 176 pages | Great product!||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| is a much better history of the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic|By Dora A. Smith|Interesting in spots, but I must have taken no more than two pages of notes on the entire book. There is historical detail in there if you have the backstory knowledge to ferret it out from between the lines. Frankly, the novel, Fever 1793, by Laurie Anderson, is a much better history of|From School Library Journal|Grade 6-10-If surviving the first 20 years of a new nationhood weren't challenge enough, the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, centering in Philadelphia, was a crisis of monumental proportions. Murphy chronicles this frightening time wit
1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown . . .
In a powerful, dramatic narrative, critically acclaimed author Jim Murphy describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on the city's residents, relating the epidemic to the major social and political events of the day and to 18th-century medical beliefs and practices. Drawing on first-hand a...
You easily download any file type for your device.An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Newbery Honor Book) | Jim Murphy. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.