Typhoid Mary an urban historical
(2024)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
614.5112/BOURDAIN,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
©2024
©2024
EDITION
[Paperback edition]
DESCRIPTION
148 pages ; 19 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781639734696, 1639734694, 9781639734696
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Recounts the story of Mary Mallon, an immigrant cook considered responsible for the 1904 outbreak of typhoid fever in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and describes her attempts to escape capture and institutionalization