SHIP FEVER. STORIES

The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the com plex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. In Ship Fever, the title novella, a young Canadian doctor fi nds himself at the center of one of history's most tragic epidemics. In The English Pupil, Linnaeus, in old age, watches as the worl d he orga...[Read more]