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Jun 1, 2017 · Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World. Pale Rider. : Laura Spinney. Random House, Jun 1, 2017 - History - 352 pages. Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer – and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic. 'Both a saga of tragedies and a ...
Jun 23, 2020 · It’s a timely read for 2020, of course. And Spinney talks about everything from how the flu started and traveled, to how it changed art, literature, and culture. All packed in under 350 pages. Given its brevity, Pale Rider is not a deep dive on any one topic. It’s more broad and shallow, while still retaining considerable intriguing details.
Jan 12, 2023 · It also created the true "lost generation." Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology and economics, Pale Rider masterfully recounts the little-known catastrophe that forever changed humanity"--Amazon Originally published in the UK in 2017 Includes bibliographical resources (pages 298-317) and index
Jonathan Cape, 2017 - History - 332 pages. With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I.
- 1910702374, 9781910702376
- Laura Spinney
- Jonathan Cape, 2017
Sep 12, 2017 · Pale Rider. : In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska, and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus -- one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on twentieth-century history. The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time.
- illustrated
- Laura Spinney
- PublicAffairs, 2017
Jun 1, 2017 · 276 reviews 102 followers. January 13, 2018. Pale Rider is a book that covers a topic that has emerged from our collective memory of WWI over the last 20 years or so. Although the flu pandemic of 1918 killed far more people than the war it is only recently that it has been talked about, written about and analyzed.
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Overview. Pale Horse, Pale Rider is a novella written by Katherine Anne Porter. It was published in 1939, along with two other short novellas, Old Mortality and Noon Wine, under the collective title Pale Horse, Pale Rider. The story portrays two young lovers who are tragically affected by the 1918 influenza epidemic, or Spanish Flu.
