White Fever

Author: Jacek Hugo-Bader
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619020114
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
No one in their right mind travels across Siberia in the middle of winter in a modified Russian jeep, with only a CD player (which breaks on the first day) for company. But Jacek Hugo–Bader is no ordinary traveler. As a fiftieth birthday present to himself, Jacek Hugo–Bader sets out to drive from Moscow to Vladivostok, traversing a continent that is two and a half times bigger than America, awash with bandits, and not always fully equipped with roads. But if his mission sounds deranged it is in keeping with the land he is visiting. For Siberia is slowly dying — or, more accurately, killing itself. This is a traumatized post–Communist landscape peopled by the homeless and the hopeless: alcoholism is endemic, as are suicides, murders, and deaths from AIDS. As he gets to know these communities and speaks to the people, Hugo–Bader discovers a great deal of tragedy, but also dark humor to be shared amongst the reindeer shepherds, the former hippies, the modern–day rappers, the homeless and the sick, the shamans, and the followers of ‘one of the six Russian Christs,’ just one of the many arcane religions that flourish in this isolated, impossible region.

White Line Fever

Author: Lemmy Kilmister
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471112713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349

Book Description
The incredible true story of a rock legend. . . Lemmy’s name was synonymous with notorious excess: his blood would have killed another human being. This is the story of the heaviest drinking, oversexed speed freak in the music business. Updated after Lemmy’s untimely death in 2016, White Line Fever offers a sometimes hilarious, often outrageous, highly entertaining ride with the frontman of (what was) the loudest rock band in history. Motörhead stand firm as conquerors of the rock world, their history spanned an incredible forty years and while the Motörhead line-up saw many changes, Lemmy was always the soul of the machine. In the words of drummer Mikkey Dee, ‘Lemmy was Motörhead.’ From playing with local bands in Wales, his early career with the Rocking Vicars, backstage touring with Hendrix, and his time with Hawkwind to creating speed metal and forming the legendary band Motörhead, this is the truly epic finale, and tribute, to Lemmy from those who loved him best.

White Blaze Fever

Author: Bill Schuette
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781589394292
Category : Appalachian Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
It's called "White Blaze Fever" and although you will not find the fever mentioned in any medical journal, have no doubt in your mind - it does exist and no one is immune. Only the most casual, most minute contact with the Appalachian Trail is needed to catch the fever. I now welcome you to be my vicarious hiking partner as we pursue the two-inch by six-inch white blazes from Springer Mountain, Georgia to Mount Katahdin, Maine. Through my daily journal entries - revised only a little - you will share encounters with bear, moose, snakes and other wildlife. You will feel the thrill of viewing the most magnificent vistas east of the Mississippi and come to know a unique collection of individuals guaranteed to bring a smile to your face and warmth to your heart.

White Coat Fever

Author: Roland S. Jefferson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438951523
Category : African American universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
Stepping back from his critically acclaimed crime genre novels, Roland S. Jefferson's White Coat Fever takes the reader on a fascinating trip back in time to the exciting world of the 1960's, when Motown, Jazz and the civil rights movement defined an entire generation. And nowhere was the aspiration of upward mobility more evidenced than on black college campuses where some middle-class black women became obsessed with the idea of marrying doctors. September, a hauntingly attractive civil rights worker who finds both love and brutality in Mississippi jails..... Perry, a brilliant medical student spoiled by good looks and his reputation as the ultimate womanizer... Aiyana, a self centered predatory social climber determined to marry a doctor at any cost, even if she doesn't love him..... Bennyboy, an idealistic and principled young medical student who shares an illicit past with a girl he once loved..... Here then is Roland S. Jefferson's magnificant, highly imaginative and immensely compelling story of a black cultural lifestyle at a pivotal time in history.....as four young people are plunged into the center of a raging conflict between political idealism and the relentless obsessions about class, color and romantic entitlement. But obsessions, even noble ones, can sometimes go tragically awry.....

Medicalizing Blackness

Author: Rana A. Hogarth
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469632888
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in medical discourses and beyond. In this fascinating medical history, Rana A. Hogarth examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge to improve plantation labor efficiency, safeguard colonial and civic interests, and enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery. Hogarth refigures Atlantic slave societies as medical frontiers of knowledge production on the topic of racial difference. Rather than looking to their counterparts in Europe who collected and dissected bodies to gain knowledge about race, white physicians in Atlantic slaveholding regions created and tested ideas about race based on the contexts in which they lived and practiced. What emerges in sharp relief is the ways in which blackness was reified in medical discourses and used to perpetuate notions of white supremacy.

Dengue Fever

Author: Katherine White
Publisher: Rosen Young Adult
ISBN: 9780823942008
Category : Dengue
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Describes the symptoms and spread of dengue fever, an Asian disease that is now advancing rapidly through tropical areas throughout the world, and discusses treatments, preventive measures, and the search for a cure.

Necropolis

Author: Kathryn Olivarius
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674241053
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
Introduction: A rising necropolis -- Patriotic fever -- Danse macabre -- Immunocapital -- Public health, private acclimation -- Denial, delusion, and disunion -- Incumbent arrogance -- Epilogue: Fever and folly.

Fever Season

Author: Jeanette Keith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608192229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
An account of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic documents how it killed more than 18,000 people in the American South, tracing its particularly catastrophic impact in Memphis, Tennessee, while noting the heroic efforts of people who remained behind to help.

All White Fever

Author: John Matheson
Publisher: Harpersport
ISBN: 9781869508661
Category : Soccer
Languages : en
Pages : 125

Book Description
The scenes at Wellington's Westpac Stadium when the All Whites qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in November were unprecedented in New Zealand. The 'White-out' by the fans helped inspire Ricki Herbert's team to a famous 1-0 win against Bahrain - a result which sent the All Whites to the World Cup for only the second time in history. All White Fever uncovers the story behind one of the greatest achievements in New Zealand sport. Thanks to countless original interviews and some painstaking research, the author: details the passionless state of the team when Herbert took charge of the team for the first time in 2005; explores how Herbert went about rebuilding the ethos of the side; turns back the clock to the giant shadow that was hanging over the current generation of All Whites - the 1982 champion team; chronicles how Herbert and then - CEO Graham Seatter planned their assault on South Africa; relives the Road to South Africa with a game-by-game account; profiles the stars of the campaign including inspirational skipper Ryan Nelsen and goal-scoring hero Rory Fallon.

Kolyma Diaries

Author: Jacek Hugo-Bader
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 1846275032
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
From the author of the award-winning White Fever, Kolyma Diaries is an excursion into one of the world's last remaining badlands, a place full of Gulag ghosts and living wrecks. All along the 2000 kilometres of the Kolyma highway, Bader is plied with vodka. He hears mesmerizing, sometimes devastating, tales of the journeys that brought his 'fellow travellers', the people who give him lifts, to this benighted land. This is a book about the descendants of prisoners eking out a living, of conmen and veterans and scrap iron dealers, of corrupt politicians and organised crime. Stories are told of sons given away, husbands who reappear after three decades, scholars who now survive by foraging for mushrooms and berries, sculptors who hoard the heads lopped off statues of Lenin, miners who dig up mass graves while looking for gold, and all the addicts, convicts, fallen heroes and even sportsmen who run away from their troubles and end up in the most remote region in Russia