The Barbary Plague
  • Published: 15 March 2004
  • ISBN: 9780375757082
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $35.00

The Barbary Plague

The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco

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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.
  • Published: 15 March 2004
  • ISBN: 9780375757082
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $35.00
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Marilyn Chase

Marilyn Chase, a longtime reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covers medical science and health care, currently focusing on infectious-disease outbreaks and bioterrorism. An honors graduate of Stanford Uni- versity who also holds a master’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, Chase lives with her family in San Francisco.