Laura Spinney 2 Books Collection Set (Proto & Pale Rider The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World) - Softcover

Laura Spinney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 5176036673 ISBN 13: 9785176036671

Publisher: William Collins/Vintage Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

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Titles In This Set:
Proto [Hardcover]
Pale Rider The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World [Paperback]

Laura Spinney 2 Books Collection Set (Proto & Pale Rider The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World):

Proto [Hardcover]:
One ancient language transformed our world. This is its story. Star. Stjarna. Stare. Thousands of miles apart, people look up at the night sky and use the same word to describe what they see. Listen to these English, Icelandic and Iranic words and you can hear echoes of one of the most extraordinary journeys in humanity’s past. All three of these languages – and hundreds more – share a single ancient ancestor. Five millennia ago, in a mysterious Big Bang of its own, this proto tongue exploded, forming new worlds as it spread east and west. Today, nearly half of humanity speaks an Indo-European language. How did this happen.

Pale Rider:
With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa.
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Edition details

• Publisher: William Collins/Vintage Ltd
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 5176036673
• ISBN 13: 9785176036671
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704