Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World by Robert S. Desowitz
Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World

Robert S. Desowitz

Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World

Robert S. Desowitz

256 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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We have long believed that our sanitized Western world is safe from the microbes and parasites of the tropics. Not so--nor ever was it so--according to Robert S. Desowitz. The story of how parasites arrived on our shores is a fascinating mix of hi...

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