Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague by David K. Randall

Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague

David K. Randall

304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative slow-paced
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For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn't noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin--a sign of bub...

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mysterious 7%

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