The Ice Merchant - Softcover

Boor, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786754931 ISBN 13: 9780786754939

Verlag: West 26th street Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

It’s the year 1889, and a shrewd Yankee ice merchant, Nicolas Van Horne, has been carving out a profitable side-business. Deep in his ship’s icy hold, dozens of human cadavers lie between the huge blocks of ice. On this delivery, his first to Galveston’s new Medical School, Nicolas makes the ghastly discovery that he’s been trafficking in murdered boys. Only with the help of Renée Keiller, Galveston’s lovely lady scientist, will Nicolas eventually solve the puzzle his ice holds . . . but first he must overcome his personal demon of morphine addiction, and become inextricably entangled in Renée’s experiments on the most dreaded killer of the time, Yellow Fever. Paul Boor, M.D., is a scientist and professor at Galveston’s medical school, the oldest west of the Mississippi. His first novel, BLOOD NOTES, was a modern biomedical thriller. In THE ICE MERCHANT, Dr. Boor explores the history of the body trade, while plumbing the depths of the human frailties of those devoted to scientific discovery.

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Paul Boor is a Harvard trained pathologist and scientist, presently Professor at the oldest medical school west of the Mississippi, in Galveston, Texas. His novel THE BLOOD NOTES OF PETER MALLOW is a futuristic biomedical thriller; his second, THE ICE MERCHANT, an historical thriller about anatomic dissection in early medical schools, the illicit body trade, and the search for a cure for yellow fever. He is also a poet and the author of WHAT PALMS KNOW, a collection of narrative, lyrical poetry exploring the sublime, the ordinary, and the scientific. His work addresses "real science" and bioterrorism, both historically and in the modern world. In his newest novel, AN ELLIPSE OF SKIN, Dr. Boor explores how one must overcome the destructive influences of war, and one's own human frailties, to become a scientist.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: West 26th street Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0786754931
• ISBN 13: 9780786754939
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 444
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland