Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City

by Jeanette Keith

Book Overview

While the American South had grown to expect a yellow fever breakout almost annually, the 1878 epidemic was without question the worst ever. Moving up the Mississippi River in the late summer, in the span of just a few months the fever killed more than eighteen thousand people. The city of Memphis, Tennessee, was particularly hard hit: Of the approximately twenty thousand who didn't flee the city, seventeen thousand contracted the fever, and more...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608192229
• ISBN13: 9781608192229
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"