Author : John R. Pierce
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : History
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Yellow Jack tracks the history of this deadly scourge from its earliest appearance in the Caribbean 350 years ago, telling the compelling story of a few extraordinarily brave souls who struggled to understand and eradicate yellow fever.
Author : ANNE. SIMON
Publisher : University of Louisiana
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781946160584
At the start of 1839, the small, south Louisiana town of New Iberia appears poised for prosperity. Acadian, French, English, and American immigrants have joined Spanish settlers in the area. Steamboats move up and down the Bayou Teche, carrying the products of the fertile land to market in New Orleans. Across the bayou, Hortense Duperier enjoys a privileged life in a grand brick house with her husband, Frederick, and their three children. Suddenly, Frederick's untimely death and financial reverses force her to manage the estate on her own. When signs of the dreaded yellow fever threaten an epidemic, Hortense turns to Felicite, an enslaved woman from Haiti. Together, the two women dispense Felicite's traditional remedies, defying the medical practices and social constraints of their time to save the young town.
Author : Sidney Coe Howard
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Yellow fever
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Author : Lisa Suhay
Publisher : Bumble Bee Pub
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781933982045
In 1855 the tears of a child failing into the water summon a mermaid to help the city of Norfolk, Virginia to fight the fever which sailors nicknames Yellow Jack. This gentle fable blends history with mermaid magic. From award winning children's author Lisa Suhay. Mermaids is a captivating tale that is sure to capture the imagination of readers young and old.
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Page : 598 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 1835
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Josh Russell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393341852
"[An] erotic, disturbing novel . . . shimmers with intensity . . . irresistible."—New Orleans Times-Picayune Hailed by reviewers as "an electrifying debut" (Baltimore Sun) and "perhaps the best evocation of New Orleans ever to appear in print" (Richmond Times-Dispatch), Yellow Jack has given Southern literature its own intoxicating hybrid of Caleb Carr, Flannery O'Connor, and Vladimir Nabokov. Russell's "virtuoso storytelling, evocative prose and original conception mark [his first book] as a significant work that we can only hope will be followed by many more" (Chicago Tribune). Yellow Jack is a ribald, picaresque trip through an 1840s New Orleans saturated with sex, drugs, death, and corruption. In this "luminously haunting" (Entertainment Weekly) portrait of decadence, daguerrotypist Claude Marchand becomes hopelessly entangled with both a voodoo-adept octoroon mistress and the erotically precocious daughter of a prominent New Orleans family. "Russell has distilled the New Orleans of the mid-1800s, the terrible fever of the title, and the savage lives of the characters into a novel of terrible beauty."—Nashville Scene
Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 1892
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 1941
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Author : Edward Howard
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 1856
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 1862
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