by Javier Moro · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467263954
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«A flor de piel» is the historical novel by Javier Moro, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (491 pages, in Spanish).
The novel recreates the expedition led by the physician Francisco Xavier Balmis at the beginning of the 19th century: a transatlantic voyage on the corvette María Pita to take the smallpox vaccine to America. The nurse Isabel Zendal and twenty-two orphans, carriers of the vaccine, accompany Balmis during the crossing.
Edition with illustrated dust jacket and final bibliography (pages 487-491). Published in 2015.
For readers of fiction based on real events and for those interested in travel, adventure and the history of medicine.
Javier Moro is a Spanish author known for his books like Pasión India.
