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Authors: David Quammen
“Science writing as detective story at its best.”
—Jennifer Ouellette,
Scientific American
’s
Cocktail Party Physics blog
“An adventure-filled page-turner . . . told from the front lines of pandemic prevention.”—Lizzie Wade,
Wired
“Masterful.”—Florence Williams,
New York Review of Books
“David Quammen [is] one of that rare breed of science journalists who blend exploration with a talent for synthesis and storytelling.”
—Nathan Wolfe,
Nature
“Quammen’s
more teacher than Jeremiah. So he calms when he can; but he’s blunt when he must be.”—Jeffrey Burke,
Bloomberg
“David Quammen might be my favorite living science writer: amiable, erudite, understated, incredibly funny, profoundly humane.”
—Kathryn Schulz,
New York
magazine
“[
Spillover
] bucks the trend of one-hypothesis, cherry-picked, all-too-neat, over TED-dy fluff on the market.”
—Ed Yong, creator of
National Geographic
’s
Not Exactly Rocket Science blog
“Not your typical sensationalist scare-a-thon. . . . [
Spillover
] hybridizes the rigor of an investigative with the suspense of a mystery novel, making for a page-turner that will have readers pondering the answers before the questions are even raised. . . . A remarkable achievement.”
—
Science
magazine
ALSO BY DAVID QUAMMEN
NONFICTION
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
Monster of God
The Song of the Dodo
Spillover
Ebola
ESSAYS
Natural Acts
The Boilerplate Rhino
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
The Flight of the Iguana
FICTION
Blood Line
The Soul of Viktor Tronko
The Zolta Configuration
To Walk the Line
EDITED
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: The Illustrated Edition
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000,
with Burkhard Bilger
Copyright © 2015, 2012 by David Quammen
Extracted from
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
, updated and with additional material.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Quammen, David, 1948-, author.
The chimp and the river : how AIDS emerged from an African
forest / David Quammen.
p. ; cm.
“Extracted from Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human
Pandemic, updated and with additional material.”—supplied by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-393-35084-5 (pbk.)
I. Quammen, David, 1948– . Spillover : animal infections and the next human
pandemic. Based on (work): II. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome—etiology—Popular Works.
2. HIV—pathogenicity—Popular Works. 3. Zoonoses—Popular Works. WC 503.3]
QR201.A37
614.5’99392—dc23
2014042399
ISBN 978-0-393-35085-2 (e-book)
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