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.
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?
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 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...
评分讲人畜共患的传染病的故事:亨德拉、埃博拉、疟疾、SARS、Q热、鹦鹉热、莱姆病、艾滋病等。作者比较会讲故事,又熟悉病毒传播相关的各种学科的知识(病毒学、生态学,还有一些我没记住的相关小学科),能把相关的科学知识讲出来,还采访过许多相关的科学家,还跟一些科学团队一...
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
评分很好看并具有一定知识性的书。作为一个搞生物的并不觉得有什么特别违和的地方。这本书让广泛的读者群体注意到了人与动物交叉感染的严峻性,以及其后暗示的环境问题,是很有意义的。文笔好,可读性强,引人入胜。至于专业知识是不是精确到毫,我个人并不特别在意。毕竟让大多数人对某件事产生兴趣,并不是科学家的专长。要求具有趣味性的同时还得在科学上一丝不苟,未免吹毛求疵。
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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bonechilling. illuminating. what Hot Zone would wanted but never could've be. great relevance in light of recent Ebola outbreak. solid research.
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