‘Weaves together global history and medical science to great effect. Laura Spinney demonstrates that the Spanish flu was as significant – if not more so – as two world wars in shaping the modern world in disrupting, and often permanently altering, global politics, race relations, family structures, and thinking across medicine, religion and the arts. She shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the humans it encountered and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and the vulnerability of humans to the test. In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. 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. In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past' Guardian 'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story. 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. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World is a book about the deadly pandemic that ravaged the world in the wake of the First World War in 1918. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World Audible Audiobook Unabridged Laura Spinney (Author), Paul Hodgson (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher) 1,763 ratings Editors pick Best History Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 27.79 38 Used from 3.

Pale rider by laura spinney