Bibliograph

Ship fever, stories, Andrea Barrett

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Ship fever, stories, Andrea Barrett

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Ship fever

Oclc number

476058225

Responsibility statement

Andrea Barrett

Sub title

stories

Summary

One novella and seven stories dealing with science and set in the 19th Century. In The Behavior of the Hawkweeds, the spirit of Mendel, the discoverer of the laws of heredity, haunts a geneticist of whose work Mendel disapproves, in Birds with No Feet, Darwin's theory of evolution provides a zoologist with consolation for his personal misfortunes, while in The English Pupil, Linnaeus, who brought order to botany, must deal with the mental disorder of his advancing age. By the author of The Middle Kingdom

Table Of Contents

The behavior of the Hawkweeds -- The English pupil -- The littoral zone -- Rare bird -- Soroche -- Birds with no feet -- The Marburg sisters -- Ship fever

Target audience

adult

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Creator