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|a Gramiccia, Gabriele
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|a The Life of Charles Ledger (1818-1905)
|h Elektronische Ressource
|b Alpacas and Quinine
|c by Gabriele Gramiccia
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|a 1st ed. 1988
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|b Macmillan Education UK
|c 1988, 1988
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|a XIV, 242 p
|b online resource
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|a The Early Years -- The Alpaca Enterprise, not Forgetting Cinchonas -- With the Alpacas to New South Wales -- Back to Peru: the Miraculous Seeds -- A General Trader Again -- After South America, the Last Years in Australia -- Epilogues -- Ledger Family Tree -- Bibliography -- Index
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|a History of Medicine
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|a Medicine—History
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|a Springer Book Archives -2004
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|u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09949-8?nosfx=y
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|a This is the first comprehensive study of the life and works of Charles Ledger. Ledger's great contribution to the world was the identification and cultivation of the 'best' unhybridized cinchona seed, from which 90% of the world's quinine was eventually produced. But Charles Ledger didn't only 'give' the world quinine, he led an adventurous life: perhaps his greatest feat being an epic drive of alpacas. He travelled 2500 km from Peru and Bolivia through Argentina and across the Andes to Peru, and then sailed to New South Wales in an attempt to establish an alpaca wool industry there - the journey took 6 years. He died unrecognised by the scientific community and poor
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