- Paperback
- Publisher: P/B (2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0007718675
- ISBN-13: 978-0007718672
- ASIN: B000G9VA54
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
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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. Read the first page
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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. Read the first page
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Riveting, Imaginative Tales About Science and Medicine,
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This review is from: Ship Fever (Paperback)
Andrea Barrett's "Ship Fever" is among the finest short story collections I've come across. She writes beautiful, elegant tales which are spendid descriptions of the human dimensions of science and medicine. Here she portrays such noted figures of science as botanist Linnaeus and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace as poignant, sympathetic figures. Brilliantly, she shows science as a meaningful human endeavor, that is as riveting for the humanity of its participants as well as its noted discoveries. Undoubtedly, the most elegantly written tale is the title story, which describes Canada's response to the Irish Famine of the 1840's as successive waves of diseased, poverty stricken Irish emigrants arrived. Without a doubt, Andrea Barrett is one of our finest writers in the English language, blessed with much intelligence and graceful, poetic prose.
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Literature for the love of science,
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This review is from: Ship Fever (Paperback)
It seems to me that the style of these short stories are indicative of the approach that natural scientists take to their work. It is patient and reflective. It doesn't force its subject into action. It observes the truth. I personally never had the patience to be a scientist, but I understand and respect the scientific mind. I read this book a little at a time (which I think is the proper way to read short stories). Even the tragic stories, such as the title story Ship Fever, left me with a sense that I had shared the characters experience in an oddly detached way. I can only compare it to reading an ancestor's personal diary, feeling that by being related to the person I somehow was affected by it all. So my recommendation is that if you enjoy science as well as literature and you take the time to absorb the stories rather than cram them, you will enjoy this collection.
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splendid read,
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This review is from: Ship Fever And Other Stories (Hardcover)
Andrea Barret has to be a genius. The eight stories are laced together with fascinating science and solid historical fact but each takes off in entirely different directions in her fabulous imagination. She is a gifted storyteller, there is plenty of suspense to keep the reader turning the page. Yet, there is the learning and wisom that only a true genius, a born writer, can impart. I flipped through the book with a group of friends and read aloud the opening sentence to a few of the stories. The stories are captivating from the first line.
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