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The Fever Trail
Mark Honigsbaum · 2001 · 333 pages
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Relates the mission of three British explorers to find the cinchona tree, the source of a medicine that supposedly had cured a Spanish countess of malaria, in an account of geopolitical rivalry that pitted the New World against the Old.
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