In The Plague Race, Marriott tells the story of the moment when one brave scientist unlocked the mystery at the heart of the disease. This took place in Hong Kong just over a hundred years ago, during an outbreak that threatened the island and, from ther, the world. A tense and frightening race was run by two rival scientists: a Frenchman, Yersinbrave, unpolished and intelligentand the suave Kitasato, unscrupulous, enigmatic, careless. Peppered with anecdotes, facts and terrifying reconstructions of modern plague outbreaks, this book is an absorbing and compelling read.
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