Ship Fever

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Andrea Barrett. Ship Fever

Ship Fever. Andrea Barrett

Table of Contents

Author’s Note

The Behavior of the Hawkweeds

The English Pupil

The Littoral Zone

Rare Bird

Soroche

Birds with No Feet [Fire—1853]

[Ague—1855]

[Theories—1862]

The Marburg Sisters [1. History]

[2. Alchemy]

[3. Speaking with Suky]

[4. The White Dog]

Ship Fever

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[II.]

[III.]

[IV.]

[V.]

[VI.]

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Praise for Ship Fever:

Also by Andrea Barrett

Copyright

About the Publisher

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For Wendy Weil

Title Page

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Mendel died in January 1884, on the night of Epiphany, confused about the value of his scientific work. That same year, long after their correspondence had ceased, Nägeli published an enormous book summarizing all his years of work. Although many of his opinions and observations seemed to echo Mendel’s work with peas, Nägeli made no mention of Mendel or his paper.

That was the story I told Richard. Torn from its context, stripped of the reasons why it was told, it became a story about the beginnings of Richard’s discipline. I knew that Richard would have paid money to hear it, but I gave it to him as a gift.

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