The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco

The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase's fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today's headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the city's Gilded Age. With a deep understanding of the effects on public health of politics, race, and geography, Chase shows how one city triumphed over perhaps the most frightening and deadly of all scourges.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 03/09/2004
ISBN: 9780375757082
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d

Review Citations: New York Times 04/18/2004 pg. 32