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SAVING THE WORLD
SAVING THE WORLD
Book Category:
Fiction > General
Author:
JULIA ALVAREZ
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 13:
9781565125582
Price:
USD 13.95
Publication Year:
2007

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Algonquin Books.

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Alma, the narrator of Saving the World, discovers a small historical footnote while doing research for a novel: In 1803, a Spanish doctor crossed the Atlantic with twenty-two orphan boys—live carriers of the smallpox vaccine—to inoculate the population of Spain's American colonies.