Description
While Alma Huebner is researching a new novel, she finds her real story - and her salvation - in a little-known but staggering historical footnote: the Royal Expedition of the Vaccine. In 1803, Don Francisco Balmis embarked on a two-year sea voyage to rescue the New World from smallpox. Accompanying him were twenty-two orphan boys, acting as live carriers, and their guardian, Isabel Sendales y Gomez. As Alma digs deeper into Isabel's life, she finds her own power to commit an act as life-changing as Isabel's.
Info
ISBN: 9781565125582
Published Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Language: English
Page Count: 376
Size: 8.25" l x 5.43" w x 1.11" h
Category
Fiction
Subject
Medical