In a text version of the book, where it’s easy enough to skip back a few pages to check context, that’s not a problem. It seemed to meander, both geographically and temporally.
I was not wild about the way “Pale Rider” was organized. Barry’s book was an appetizer to Spinney’s full course.
Random House, Random House, Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell tried to persuade Charlotte Brontë-whose grim experience of the world suggested otherwise-that everybody has it the same in the long run, but in some people’s lives good and evil are blended, rather than coming. Pale Horse, Pale Rider, by Katherine Anne Porter. Spinney’s book on the flu pandemic, Pale Rider: anthropology is a tool to be used to understand why disease control methods are not accepted by communities, and understanding anthropology-and the associated socioeconomic impact of pandemics-is just as much an integral aspect of the control of influenza as is the provision. Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the worldīOOK REVIEW: Laura Spinney’s Pale Rider re-examines 20th Century’s biggest tragedy Posted on Septem by adavidjohnson It’s become a standard bit of 20th Century trivia that as terrible as the First World War was, the Flu Pandemic coinciding with the armistice killed more than the conflict itself. Pale rider the Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the world by Laura Spinney
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