Decline and Fall of Prospect Hill: The End of a Decade of Manorial Living
Language: English
Published by National Institutes of Health, Bethseda, Maryland, 1990
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Decline and Fall of Prospect Hill: The End of a Decade of Manorial Living The Decline and Fall of Prospect Hill: The End of a Decade of Manorial Living (covering January 1 - December 31, 1989) is an incompletely edited, unpublished diary manuscript by Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, the 1976 Nobel laureate who identified kuru. It is one volume in his annual journals documenting life at Prospect Hill, the dilapidated eighteenth-century estate in Frederick, Maryland, where he housed a large surrogate family of mostly Papua New Guinean and Melanesian boys. Key facts: It follows the 1988 volume, Duodeca-Log: A Journal of Twelve Departures From and Returns to Prospect Hill, and precedes the 1990 volume, Year of Reentrenchment in a Wonderland of Infectious Amyloids. The manuscript was held in the personal collection of Michael Alpers in Fremantle, Australia, and is cited in scholarship on Gajdusek's household (e.g., Family Man in Oceania, 2007, and Carleton's Kids in The Journal of Pacific History, 2009). This Journal is in fine condition and has no damage, wear or blemishes. See photos.…
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- Title
- Decline and Fall of Prospect Hill: The End of a Decade of Manorial Living
- Author
- Dr. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
- Publisher
- National Institutes of Health, Bethseda, Maryland
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item weight
- 66.4 ounces
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