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The Fever Tree is a collection of short stories by British author Ruth Rendell!.
The story :
Ford and Tricia travel to a mosquito-ridden South African nature reserve in an attempt to patch up their awful marriage!. It's a terrible idea, and Ford is soon wondering if the leopards can rid him of his wife quicker than the divorce courts!.

This was all i could find, since it is a SHORT story, I suggest you read it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Have you tried "Cliff's Notes"!? Is the book "The Miraculous Fever Tree"!?

Here is a little overview, but it won't get you 5 paragraphs -

In the summer of 1623, ten cardinals and hundreds of their attendants died in Rome while electing a new pope!. The Roman marsh fever that felled them was the scourge of the Mediterranean, northern Europe and even America!. Malaria, now known as a disease of the tropics, badly weakened the Roman Empire!. It killed thousands of British troops fighting Napoleon in 1809 and many soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War!. It turned back travelers exploring West Africa in the nineteenth century and brought the building of the Panama Canal to a standstill!. Even today, malaria kills someone every thirty seconds!. For more than one thousand years, there was no cure for it!. Pope Urban VIII, elected during the malarial summer of 1623, was determined that a cure should be found!. He encouraged Jesuit priests establishing new missions in Asia and in South America to learn everything they could from the peoples they encountered!. In Peru a young apothecarist named Agostino Salumbrino established an extensive network of pharmacies that kept the Jesuit missions in South America and Europe supplied with medicines!. In 1631 Salumbrino dispatched a new miracle to Rome!. The cure was quinine, an alkaloid made of the bitter red bark of the cinchona tree!. Using fresh research from the Vatican and the Indian archives in Seville, as well as documents she discovered in Peru, award-winning author Fiammetta Rocco chronicles the disease and its cure!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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who is it by!?
Well I'll assume that it is "The Miraculous Fever-Tree" by: Fiammetta Rocco
okay so a summary about THAT book is (in my own opinion):
is yet another contemporary example of the popular science treatise exemplified by Dava Sobel's "Longitude" and Simon Winchester's "Krakatoa" and "The Map That Changed The World"!. Ms!. Rocco, the literary editor of the Economist, takes us on a globe-spanning, centuries-long odyssey in search of Malaria's cure, quinine, distilled from the bark of the South American cinchona tree!. It is a moving, elegant look at the age of discovery and exploration, vividly recounting how the discovery and use of cinchona bark, and then later, its chemical derivative, quinine, allowed Western imperial states such as Spain and Great Britain to colonize vast tracts of South America, Africa and Asia!. She also offers a fascinating glimpse into malaria's deadly impact on Allied and Axis military forces during World War Two!. And she elegantly weaves in her own personal struggle with malaria, which she contracted during her late adolescence/early adulthood in Kenya!. Rocco's crisp prose is as eloquent as those from Sobel and Winchester!. Without question, this is among the finest books on popular science and medicine published in the past year!.

If you are really interested in finding a longer summary then go to:
www!.amazon!.com beecause they have many written summary's about this book! Good Luck :)Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Did you read it!!!!!?!?!?!? If you did you could do it yourself!!!


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