
SAVING THE WORLD |
Book Category:
Fiction > General
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Author:
JULIA ALVAREZ
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Binding:
Paperback
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ISBN 13:
9781565125582
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Price:
USD 13.95
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Publication Year:
2007
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Publisher Info
Algonquin Books. InquiryBook Description
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.