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In this "frightening and fascinating masterpiece" (Walter Isaacson), David Quammen explores the true origins of HIV/AIDS.
The real story of AIDS―how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people―is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises and yielded a radically new scenario of how AIDS began and spread. Excerpted and adapted from the book Spillover, with a new introduction by the author, Quammen's hair-raising investigation tracks the virus from chimp populations in the jungles of southeastern Cameroon to laboratories across the globe, as he unravels the mysteries of when, where, and under what circumstances such a consequential "spillover" can happen. An audacious search for answers amid more than a century of data, The Chimp and the River tells the haunting tale of one of the most devastating pandemics of our time.
- Sales Rank: #83416 in Books
- Published on: 2015-02-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.20" h x .60" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 176 pages
Review
“To call David Quammen one of our greatest science writers is to belittle him. He is one of our greatest writers, period.” (Hampton Sides, best-selling narrative historian and editor at large at Outside magazine)
“[An] intense study of the origins of AIDS. With Sherlockian verve… Quammen’s portrait of the real ‘Patient Zero’… is a masterful summing-up of the evidence.” (Nathan Wolfe - Nature)
“Compelling…[an] utterly gripping story.” (Abigail Zuger - The New York Times)
About the Author
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.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
By Julee Rudolf
Spillover, Quammen’s comprehensive book about zoonoses, was one of the best books I read last year. So, when I noticed he’d published another book, entitled Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus, I immediately ordered it from our local library, read it, and realized it was almost entirely a reprint of the Ebola chapter from Spillover!
Now I'm wishing I’d have read the author’s blog (which I did, just now…grrr) before getting fooled again. I take full responsibility the second time around (feeling...chagrined) but am still bummed. At least the Ebola book had the teensiest of changes, this one is, admittedly (by the author in this excerpt from his blog),
“Zoonotic diseases are the subject of my 2012 book Spillover—a work mainly devoted to the ecology and evolution of scary viruses—from which I extracted and reshaped sections to produce a little 2014 book,Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus. I’ve now done the same thing (at the suggestion of W. W. Norton) with the long AIDS chapter from Spillover, in order to offer it too as a short, stand-alone book.”
I confess, even though he added nothing to what he’d published on the subject in Spillover, I found it fascinating even the second time around, reading along obliviously, in hopes he'd new information. My one complaint (besides the fact that he’s now twice published portions of Spillover as stand-alone books), would be the short historical fiction part of the story where Quammen includes a play by play of what could have happened that would support the “cut hunter” theory. Nearly all, some, or none of that may be true, which is why I am not a fan of the genre, even when included within an otherwise true story.
My advice: read Spillover (and skip the excerpt books!). The additional information gained is well worth the additional time and effort. You might also like: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, Fever! The Hunt for a New Killer Virus by John G. Fuller and World War Z: The Zombie War by Max Brooks (I recommend the audio version of this one).
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Mind blowing!
By iluvteeth
Read this book in two days! Absolutely fascinating! I had read Edward Hoopers book "The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS" which gives account to the possible origins of HIV to the polio vaccine campaign conduced in Africa, but David Quammen's book investigates further. I don't want to spoil this book, but I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested with the origins of HIV and how it has become one of the biggest pandemics known to man. Wonderful book!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Glossy overview of the history of HIV
By J. Easton
Quick read about the history of HIV. I didn't quite realize before purchasing (although I think it's clear, I just didn't pay attention) that this is taken from another of his books. He references that a few times in this book, and glosses over some details that I think must be explained in further detail in the larger work. I would have liked to see more discussion of some of the biology, as he does often skip the details of how exactly how the microbiologists have derived their findings. Also, be warned that a good chunk of the middle of the book is pure speculation about the Cut Hunter hypothesis and how the virus may have spread to other humans from the Cut Hunter. That was a bit disappointing from a science writer.
If you are looking for an easy to read introduction into how scientists trace zoonotic diseases, this will be a great book for you! If you want something more in-depth, I would suggest reading Spillover or Pepin's more in-depth book.
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