Read it on your PC, Mac, iOS or Android smartphone, tablet devices. If you have not yet purchased a copy of the originalbook, please do before purchasing this unofficial Conversation Starters. Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen beforeĭisclaimer This book is an independent resource to supplement the original book and is notaffiliated nor endorse by the original work in any way. Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups These questions can be used to create hours of conversation: The characters and their world come alive,Īnd the characters and its world still live on.Ĭonversation Starters is peppered with questions designed toĪnd invite us into the world that lives on. The book, which made it to the New York Times Bestseller List, received general acclaim from both critics and readers.ĮVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER Pale Rider was released on 12th September, 2017 by PublicAffairs. Its title refers to the Biblical story of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in which one of the riders is Death. It explores the onset of the Spanish flu and how governments and people reacted to it during and in the aftermath of a massive war.

The flu killed more than 50 million people at the lowest global estimate and transformed society in unprecedented and unexpected ways. But during the bitterly cold winter of 2017-18, deeply shocking images began to emerge. It is sometimes nicknamed the Dutch Serengeti because of the profusion of large herbivores that graze there. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World is a book about the deadly pandemic that ravaged the world in the wake of the First World War in 1918. TO the east of Amsterdam lies a tract of reclaimed marshland, the site of an epic rewilding project called the Oostvaardersplassen. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney: Conversation Starters

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