Author : John R. Pierce
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : History
ISBN :
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 : 38,67 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 : Lisa Suhay
Publisher : Bumble Bee Pub
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 18,70 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.
Author : Josh Russell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,65 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 : Sidney Coe Howard
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Yellow fever
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Page : 598 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1835
Category : English literature
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Author : Frederick Marryat
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : Jack Shipman
Publisher : Mariner Publishing Company, Incorporated
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 26,31 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Basic training (Military education)
ISBN : 9780984921454
Gripping and dramatic, Yellow Footprints reveals the extraordinary journey of becoming one of the proud...and one of the few. Set in 1969 during the height of the Vietnam War, Yellow Footprints details the grueling training of Platoon 3074 to prepare them for the mighty ranks of the U.S. Marine Corps. From the harrowing first few days to the camaraderie forged by the men who shared this ordeal, author Jack Shipman presents an unrestrained look at boot camp not often viewed by the public. Yellow footprints mark the entrance to the Receiving Barracks at the U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island, South Carolina, and San Diego, California. Along with the other new recruits, Jack Shipman took his first steps on those footprints to either become a proud U.S. Marine or wash out of the toughest military training in the world. Shipman's attention to detail and his frank assessment of his experiences offers a highly readable account for those seeking to learn the fundamentals of Marine Corps history.
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 1941
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Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 1892
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