Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Winegard, Timothy |
| Publisher: | Ediciones B |
| Date: | 2/18/2020 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Un libro pionero que muestracómo, durante miles de años, el mosquito ha sido la fuerza determinante de nuestro destino.
La guerra contra elmosquito es la historia de nuestro mundo.
Através de los tiempos, desde nuestra evolución como homínidos en África hasta el presente, hemos estadoatrapados en una lucha a vida o muertecontra el mosquito. Pero en esa guerra por la supervivencia no tuvimos opción. Gracias a sus adaptacionesevolutivas, nuestro obstinado y mortalarchienemigo burló los intentos de exterminarlo y continuó alimentando su reinado del terror, aúninvicto. Transformó impunemente lahistoria a través de numerosas enfermedades, y hoy sigue siendo el mayordestructor de mundos y el primer y más distinguido asesino global de lahumanidad.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
**Theinstant New York Times bestseller**
*An international bestseller*
“Hugely impressive, a major work.”—NPR
A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers adramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how throughmillennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force indetermining humanity’s fate.
Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in Indiaand Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? Whathas protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrenderits sovereignty to England? What was George Washington’s secret weapon duringthe American Revolution?
The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito.
Across our planet since the dawn of humankind, this nefarious pest, roughlythe size and weight of a grape seed, has been at the frontlines of history asthe grim reaper, the harvester of human populations, and the ultimate agentof historical change. As the mosquito transformed the landscapes ofcivilization, humans were unwittingly required to respond to its piercingimpact and universal projection of power.
The mosquito has determined the fates of empires and nations, razed andcrippled economies, and decided the outcome of pivotal wars, killing nearlyhalf of humanity along the way. She (only females bite) has dispatched anestimated 52 billion people from a total of 108 billion throughout ourrelatively brief existence. As the greatest purveyor of extermination we haveever known, she has played a greater role in shaping our human story than anyother living thing with which we share our global village.
Imagine for a moment a world without deadly mosquitoes, or any mosquitoes,for that matter? Our history and the world we know, or think we know, wouldbe completely unrecognizable.
Driven by surprising insights and fast-paced storytelling, The Mosquito isthe extraordinary untold story of the mosquito’s reign through human historyand her indelible impact on our modern world order.
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