Foreign Bodies av Simon Schama

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<P><B>‘This splendid and often moving work of history… Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides’ <I>Daily Telegraph</I><BR/> <BR/>‘Superb’ <I>Observer</I><BR/> <BR/>‘Extraordinary… A meticulous retelling of a terrible yet scientifically innovative period… Makes an urgent case for building a better future on our toxic past’ <I>Guardian</I><BR/> <BR/>‘This is history of the best sort – humanly engaged but never sentimental’<I> Mail on Sunday </I></B><BR/><BR/><B>Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. </B><BR