Spillover
- Author David Quammen
- Narrator Jonathan Yen
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 1 January 1970
- Run Time 20 hours and 47 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Epidemiology and Medical statistics, Globalization, History of medicine, Infectious and contagious diseases, Medicine: general issues, Social forecasting, future studies, Social impact of environmental issues, Society and Social Sciences, The environment, Veterinary medicine: diseases and therapeutics.
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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.
‘A tremendous book...this gives you all you need to know and all you should know’ Sunday Times
‘Chilling… [A] brilliant, devastating book’ Daily Mail
(C) David Quammen 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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
Quammen’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
A tremendous book…this gives you all you need to know and all you should know. Quammen’s research and the analysis make sensationalism unnecessary
Mr Quammen is not just among our best science writers but among our best writers, period…that he hasn’t won a non-fiction National Book Award or Pulitzer Prize is an embarrassment… Quammen is a patient explainer and a winning observer, he has a novelistic flair for describing his fellow humans… Quammen, combining physical and intellectual adventure, wraps his canny explorations into powerful moral witness
One of that rare breed of science journalists who blend exploration with a talent for synthesis and storytelling… This is a timely, serious and impressive work that marks the maturation of a field of microbiology
Terrific…the stories of the victims and the scientists are told in astonishing detail
He [Quammen] ranges with ease over decades and continents, drawing upon years of interviews and field trips with scientists…[he] is a lively writer and a good detective, tracing diseases from their first appearance back to their origins—in some cases, still unsettled… Quammen does not shy away from the lurid question of the “next big one” that will be on readers’ minds from the start
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