An edition of Ship fever
(1996)
Ship fever
stories
1st ed.
by Andrea Barrett
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One novella and seven stories dealing with science and set in the 19th century. In The behavior of the hawkweeds, the spirit of Mendel, the discoverer of the laws of heredity, haunts a geneticist of whose work Mendel disapproves; in Birds with no feet, Darwin's theory of evolution provides a zoologist with consolation for his personal misfortunes; in The English pupil, Linnaeus, who brought order to botany, must deal with the mental disorder of his advancing age. By the author of The Middle Kingdom.
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The behavior of the Hawkweeds
The English pupil
The littoral zone
Rare bird
Soroche
Birds with no feet
The Marburg sisters
Ship fever
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