Review
― Nathan Wolfe, Nature
― Lizzie Wade, Wired
― Seattle Times
― Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine
― Jeffrey Burke, Bloomberg“The scariest book you’ll read this year.”
― The Daily Beast“[An] ambitious and encyclopedic voyage…Mr. Quammen does a beautiful job of showing how so much of scientific knowledge is provisional, with great unknowns about infectious diseases.”
― Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone“David Quammen has done it again. Fascinating and terrifying, Spillover is a real-life thriller with an outcome that affects us all.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
“This is a frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story. David Quammen takes us on a quest to understand AIDS, Ebola, and other diseases that share a frightening commonality: they all jumped from wild animals to humans. By explaining this growing trend, Quammen not only provides a warning about the diseases we will face in the future, he also causes us to reflect on our place as humans in the earth’s ecosystem.”
― Walter Isaacson, author of Leonardo Da Vinci
About the Author
Product details
- ISBN-13: 9780099522850
- Publisher: Random House
- Published: January 2021
- Pages: 592
- Binding: Paperback