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Authors: Sonia Shah
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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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THE FEVER
HOW MALARIA
HAS RULED HUMANKIND
FOR 500,000 YEARS
SONIA SHAH
SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS
FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX NEW YORK
SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Copyright © 2010 by Sonia Shah
All rights reserved
Distributed in Canada by D&M Publishers, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America
First edition, 2010
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shah, Sonia.
The fever : how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years / Sonia Shah.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-374-23001-2 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Malaria—History. I. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Malaria—history. WC 750 S525f 2010]
RA644.M2S46 2010
614.5'32—dc22
2010002374
Designed by Abby Kagan
1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2
Title-page illustration:
A Man Being Attacked by Insects
, from
Hortus Sanitatis
, 1491, courtesy of the National Library of Medicine
Man ploughs the sea like a leviathan, he soars through the air like an eagle; his voice circles the world in a moment, his eyes pierce the heavens; he moves mountains, he makes the desert to bloom; he has planted his flag at the north pole and the south; yet millions of men each year are destroyed because they fail to outwit a mosquito.
—
PAUL F. RUSSELL
, 1931
