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Ship Fever

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254
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~4h 14min
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English
LANGUAGE
4
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Categories
Science Fiction
New York Times Reviewed
Scientists
Historical
Fiction
Published 1996 Norton 12 views
ISBN
0006551424, 9780006551423
Editions
Paperback
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Andrea Barrett

American novelist and short story writer, who's collection Ship Fever won the 1996 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction

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For thirty years, until he retired, my husband stood each fall in front of his sophomore genetics class and passed out copies of Gregor Mendel's famous paper on the hybridization of edible peas...

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One novella and seven stories dealing with science and set in the 19th century. In The behavior of the hawkweeds, the spirit of Mendel, the discoverer of the laws of heredity, haunts a geneticist of whose work Mendel disapproves; in Birds with no feet, Darwin's theory of evolution provides a zoologist with consolation for his personal misfortunes; in The English pupil, Linnaeus, who brought order to botany, must deal with the mental disorder of his advancing age. By the author of The Middle Kingdom.

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