Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Maps
Early-Eighteenth-Century South America
Central Africa
World Distribution of Malaria
Introduction: The Tree of Fevers
1 Sickness Prevails – Africa
2 The Tree Required – Rome
3 The Tree Discovered – Peru
4 The Quarrel – England
5 The Quest – South America
6 To War and to Explore – From Holland to West Africa
7 To Explore and to War – From America to Panama
8 The Seed – South America
9 The Science – India, England and Italy
10 The Last Forest – Congo
Notes on Sources
Further Reading
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Praise
Copyright
About the Publisher
