The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest (21 page)

“Science writing as detective story at its best.”

—Jennifer Ouellette,
Scientific American
’s

Cocktail Party Physics blog

“An adventure-filled page-turner . . . told from the front lines of pandemic prevention.”—Lizzie Wade,
Wired

“Masterful.”—Florence Williams,
New York Review of Books

“David Quammen [is] one of that rare breed of science journalists who blend exploration with a talent for synthesis and storytelling.”

—Nathan Wolfe,
Nature

“Quammen’s
more teacher than Jeremiah. So he calms when he can; but he’s blunt when he must be.”—Jeffrey Burke,
Bloomberg

“David Quammen might be my favorite living science writer: amiable, erudite, understated, incredibly funny, profoundly humane.”

—Kathryn Schulz,
New York
magazine

“[
Spillover
] bucks the trend of one-hypothesis, cherry-picked, all-too-neat, over TED-dy fluff on the market.”

—Ed Yong, creator of
National Geographic
’s

Not Exactly Rocket Science blog

“Not your typical sensationalist scare-a-thon. . . . [
Spillover
] hybridizes the rigor of an investigative with the suspense of a mystery novel, making for a page-turner that will have readers pondering the answers before the questions are even raised. . . . A remarkable achievement.”

—
Science
magazine

ALSO BY DAVID QUAMMEN

NONFICTION

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin

Monster of God

The Song of the Dodo

Spillover

Ebola

ESSAYS

Natural Acts

The Boilerplate Rhino

Wild Thoughts from Wild Places

The Flight of the Iguana

FICTION

Blood Line

The Soul of Viktor Tronko

The Zolta Configuration

To Walk the Line

EDITED

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: The Illustrated Edition

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000,
with Burkhard Bilger

Copyright © 2015, 2012 by David Quammen

Extracted from
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
, updated and with additional material.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Quammen, David, 1948-, author.

  The chimp and the river : how AIDS emerged from an African
forest / David Quammen.

    p. ; cm.

“Extracted from Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human
Pandemic, updated and with additional material.”—supplied by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-393-35084-5 (pbk.)

I. Quammen, David, 1948– . Spillover : animal infections and the next human
pandemic. Based on (work): II. Title.

[DNLM: 1. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome—etiology—Popular Works.
2. HIV—pathogenicity—Popular Works. 3. Zoonoses—Popular Works. WC 503.3]

QR201.A37

614.5’99392—dc23

2014042399

ISBN 978-0-393-35085-2 (e-book)

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