A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.
The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia—but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field—netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo—with the world’s leading disease scientists. In Spillover Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?
David Quammen is the author of The Song of the Dodo, among other books. He has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is the recipient of a John Burroughs Medal and the National Magazine Award. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.
10月2号,一名英国旅行者从阿富汗乘飞机返回故乡格拉斯哥,在旅途中,他突然感到有些不适。几个小时以后他被诊断出患有克里米亚-刚果出血热——这种疾病的病毒特别危险,足以让他被送上一架军用运输机并转移到伦敦的一家隔离医院里。 他没撑过24小时就病发身亡了。 上个月,在...
评分看了SARS那章,才发现这个译者有多不走心,时代周刊亚洲版翻译成亚洲时代是什么鬼…是头一次干翻译吗?另外提到的几个病毒学家根本查不到信息。我查了当年资料才把“关熠”和袁国勇对上号…中国翻译翻译中国人名字多查两下弄对很难吗?怀疑译者的工作态度。 不过书还是很有趣的...
评分Overall, the book is pretty informative and science-based for a decent reader. By reading the book, one can learn a great deal of epidemic related knowledge. The book is sort of a page-turner itself during Covid-19 period(home-bound quarantine). I first le...
评分这本书没必要写这么长,感觉罗里吧嗦。而且书中关于SARS的记录,真的是太太太太肤浅了,直接让我怀疑了本书其他章节的准确性和真实性。书中写到“对于一个拥有13亿人口的打过来说,吃饭是个大问题,人们吃蛇不足为奇,广东人吃狗也就显得顺理成章”,这都是些啥啊。至于其他的...
评分看了SARS那章,才发现这个译者有多不走心,时代周刊亚洲版翻译成亚洲时代是什么鬼…是头一次干翻译吗?另外提到的几个病毒学家根本查不到信息。我查了当年资料才把“关熠”和袁国勇对上号…中国翻译翻译中国人名字多查两下弄对很难吗?怀疑译者的工作态度。 不过书还是很有趣的...
在家抗疫的手边书,信息丰富,笔触生动幽默,在亚马逊和Goodreads网站都有4+的高分。SARS一段写得宛如犯罪小说,“猴与河”更有一段文艺兮兮的独木舟漂流记,尾声把人口爆发类比成outbreak真是当头棒喝。这也许让自诩硬核的读者心生鄙夷,但整本书的趣味性和可读性极佳,作为科普真的是太好了。
评分有一部分写得好,但很大一部分都是在讲故事,没太多科学的东西
评分在家抗疫的手边书,信息丰富,笔触生动幽默,在亚马逊和Goodreads网站都有4+的高分。SARS一段写得宛如犯罪小说,“猴与河”更有一段文艺兮兮的独木舟漂流记,尾声把人口爆发类比成outbreak真是当头棒喝。这也许让自诩硬核的读者心生鄙夷,但整本书的趣味性和可读性极佳,作为科普真的是太好了。
评分在家抗疫的手边书,信息丰富,笔触生动幽默,在亚马逊和Goodreads网站都有4+的高分。SARS一段写得宛如犯罪小说,“猴与河”更有一段文艺兮兮的独木舟漂流记,尾声把人口爆发类比成outbreak真是当头棒喝。这也许让自诩硬核的读者心生鄙夷,但整本书的趣味性和可读性极佳,作为科普真的是太好了。
评分在家抗疫的手边书,信息丰富,笔触生动幽默,在亚马逊和Goodreads网站都有4+的高分。SARS一段写得宛如犯罪小说,“猴与河”更有一段文艺兮兮的独木舟漂流记,尾声把人口爆发类比成outbreak真是当头棒喝。这也许让自诩硬核的读者心生鄙夷,但整本书的趣味性和可读性极佳,作为科普真的是太好了。
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