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Spillover by David Quammen
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Spillover

Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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Length 20 hours 46 minutes
Language English
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Brought to you by Penguin.

A gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can tackle a global pandemic.


As globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, we encounter strange and dangerous infections that originate in animals but that can be transmitted to humans. Diseases that were contained are being set free and the results are potentially catastrophic.

In a journey that takes him from southern China to the Congo, from Bangladesh to Australia, David Quammen tracks these infections to their source, and asks what we can do to prevent some new pandemic spreading across the face of the earth.

As cases of Coronavirus grow across the globe, discover the book that predicted this viral disaster and the science that could stop the next one in its tracks.

โ€˜A tremendous book...this gives you all you need to know and all you should knowโ€™ Sunday Times


โ€˜Chillingโ€ฆ [A] brilliant, devastating bookโ€™ Daily Mail


(C) David Quammen 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

David Quammen's sixteen previous books include The Tangled Tree, The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Premio Letterario Merck. He has written for the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, the Atlantic, National Geographic and Outside, among other publications, and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award.

Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion, and with two Russian wolfhounds, a cross-eyed cat, and a rescue python.

Visit him at DavidQuammen.com

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Reviews

A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story It may have been eight years since David Quammen's Spillover was first published, but its prescience is spookily topical this plague year Travelling deep into the rainforest with the scientists hoping to identify the next pandemic pathogen, Quammen's book is plotted like a detective thriller Quammenโ€™s book is compelling and shows that there are many candidates out there vying to be the next pandemic Quammen has a wide range of knowledge, an agile pen, and a generous heart Expand reviews
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