Ship of Death: A Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World

摘要

One of the strangest tales in the annals of medicine must be the voyage of the Hankey. Historian Billy G. Smith has resurrected the long-buried history of the British abolitionists who set off in the ship to found a slavery-free West African colony in the late eighteenth century. They failed - then inadvertently wreaked viral havoc as the Hankey left Africa riddled with mosquitoes carrying yellow fever.