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Saving the World
Saving the World
Author: Julia Alvarez
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. Accompanying them on the two-year voyage was a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781565125100
ISBN-10: 156512510X
Publication Date: 4/7/2006
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Algonquin Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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