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Honigsbaum, Mark. - The fever trail : in search of the cure of malaria.

Title: The fever trail : in search of the cure of malaria.
Description: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 Hardbound. Dustjacket. xx,307 pp. Ills. Maps. Keurig/ als nieuw. Using the legend of a Spanish countess, who was cured of malaria by drinking a medicine made from the cinchona tree, to guide them, three British explorers embark on a mission to find the elusive cinchona tree to rid the world of this debilitating disease, in a riveting true account of bravery and geopolitical rivalry that pitted the New World against the Old. 20,000 first printing.

Keywords: 9780374154691

Price: EUR 8.50 = appr. US$ 9.24 Seller: 't Duveltje
- Book number: 0802-742

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