Author : John R. Pierce
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 24,19 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 : Josh Russell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 12,53 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 : ANNE. SIMON
Publisher : University of Louisiana
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,72 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.
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Page : 598 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1835
Category : English literature
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Author : Lisa Suhay
Publisher : Bumble Bee Pub
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 15,55 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 : 770 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Author : Frederick Marryat
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Arizona
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Page : 606 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 1835
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Author : John Kuo Wei Tchen
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 28,60 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1781681236
From invading hordes to enemy agents, a great fear haunts the West! The “yellow peril” is one of the oldest and most pervasive racist ideas in Western culture—dating back to the birth of European colonialism during the Enlightenment. Yet while Fu Manchu looks almost quaint today, the prejudices that gave him life persist in modern culture. Yellow Peril! is the first comprehensive repository of anti-Asian images and writing, and it surveys the extent of this iniquitous form of paranoia. Written by two dedicated scholars and replete with paintings, photographs, and images drawn from pulp novels, posters, comics, theatrical productions, movies, propagandistic and pseudo-scholarly literature, and a varied world of pop culture ephemera, this is both a unique and fascinating archive and a modern analysis of this crucial historical formation.
