Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

  • Black Death at the Golden Gate

  • The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
  • By: David K. Randall
  • Narrated by: Charles Constant
  • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

Try for £0.00
Thousands of incredible audiobooks and podcasts to take wherever you go.
Immerse yourself in a world of storytelling with the Plus Catalogue - unlimited listening to thousands of select audiobooks, podcasts and Audible Originals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Black Death at the Golden Gate cover art

Black Death at the Golden Gate

By: David K. Randall
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Carville's Cure cover art
Bellevue cover art
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl cover art
The Trials of Nina McCall cover art
Phantom Plague cover art
Dr. Benjamin Rush cover art
American Sirens cover art
Paradise Falls cover art
Epidemics cover art
The Next Pandemic cover art
Epidemic cover art
Asleep cover art
The Moth in the Iron Lung cover art
The Last Charles Manson Tapes cover art
And the Band Played On cover art
The Icepick Surgeon cover art

Summary

A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress.

For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn't noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin - a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong's tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed 10 million lives worldwide. 

To local press, railroad barons, and elected officials, such a possibility was inconceivable - or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued. 

In the tradition of Erik Larson and Steven Johnson, best-selling author David K. Randall spins a spellbinding account of Blue's race to understand the disease and contain its spread - the only hope of saving San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate.
©2019 David K. Randall (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
History & Commentary Contagious Diseases State & Local
Show More Show Less

What listeners say about Black Death at the Golden Gate

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    5
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    5
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    6
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.co.uk reviews

Amazon reviews
Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for Samantha cross

Enthralling

This book was well written and interesting, it grabbed my attention straight away. It’s a concise history of an outbreak that would scare us yet the fight to get the powers to be to overcome politics has echoes today. Well worth a listen xxxx

Report this

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!