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Vaccines and Bayonets

Bee Bloeser

Step into the heart of a turbulent era with a gripping historical memoir that chronicles one woman’s extraordinary journey in Africa. In this vivid recounting—which one Pulitzer nominee says, “reads like a political thriller, women’s history, and...

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Opening Credits

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Dedication and Opening Quote

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Preface

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Prologue

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Part I Chapter 1: Ranka Didi

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Part I Chapter 2: Called to Africa

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Part I Chapter 3: To the Sahel

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Part I Chapter 4: Adamu

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Part I Chapter 5: The Lepers

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Part I Chapter 6: Kano City

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Part I Chapter 7: Smallpox Target Zero

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Part I Chapter 8: Mangoes and Mambas

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Part I Chapter 9: Green

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Part I Chapter 10: Technology 1969

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Part I Chapter 11: Smallpox / Measles Logistics

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Part I Chapter 12: The Moon and Man

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Part I Chapter 13: Expats

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Part I Chapter 14: Primadonna

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Part I Chapter 15: Hausa Customs

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Part I Chapter 16: For Your Eyes Only

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Part I Chapter 17: Crash

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Part I Chapter 18: Two Targets

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Part I Chapter 19: Hemorrhagic Fever

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Part I Chapter 20: Just Who Carl Was

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Part I Chapter 21: Medieval Festival

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Part I Chapter 22: Winds of Sahara

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Part I Chapter 23: Making Vinegar

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Part I Chapter 24: The War Ended Today

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Part I Chapter 25: Party in the Harem

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Part I Chapter 26: Market with a Past

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Part I Chapter 27: Objet d'Art

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Part I Chapter 28: Women Hidden behind Walls

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Part I Chapter 29: Hold the Celebration

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Part I Chapter 30: The Void

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Part I Chapter 31: A Fateful Decision

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Part II Chapter 1: Mr. Ambassador

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Part II Chapter 2: Calvo Sotelo

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Part II Chapter 3: Standoff

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Part II Chapter 4: So This Is the Foreign Service

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Part II Chapter 5: But It Looks Like Paradise

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Part II Chapter 6: A Little History

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Part II Chapter 7: Eerie Silence

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Part II Chapter 8: And Then There Were Six

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Part II Chapter 9: Rio Muni

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Part II Chapter 10: No Talking to Locals

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Part II Chapter 11: Everybody Comes to the Bahia

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Part II Chapter 12: Macias Nguema

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Part II Chapter 13: Not a Game / and Reflection

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Part II Chapter 14: Samuel's Domain

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Part II Chapter 15: Brother to Brother

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Part II Chapter 16: The Shipment

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Part II Chapter 17: The Spanish Ambassador's Bride

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Part II Chapter 18: Tumbu Fly

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Part II Chapter 19: Fourth of July

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Part II Chapter 20: Embassy Comic Relief

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Part II Chapter 21: Child's Play

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Part II Chapter 22: The Outside World

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Part II Chapter 23: Beaten

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Part II Chapter 24: But We Were Just Out for a Walk!

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Part II Chapter 25: A Spy Behind the Tree

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Part II Chapter 26: Black Beach Prison

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Part II Chapter 27: Isolation

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Part II Chapter 28: Pressure Valve

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Part II Chapter 29: Milestones

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Part II Chapter 30: Musical Ministers--Again

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Part II Chapter 31: The Terror / and Reflection

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Part II Chapter 32: Cautioning CDC

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Part II Chapter 33: The Cult

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Part II Chapter 34: Fines and Worse

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Part II Chapter 35: May I Hear from You at an Early Date?

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Part II Chapter 36: Jesus He Been Born

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Part II Chapter 37: High-Level Diplomacy

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Part II Chapter 38: The King Jaja

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Part III Chapter 1: The Calm Before

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Part III Chapter 2: International Incident

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Part III Chapter 3: Time to Go

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Part III Chapter 4: Exit

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Part IV Chapter 1: Gunboats

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Part IV Chapter 2: The Doctors Bradley

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Part IV Chapter 3: Aftershock

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Part IV Chapter 4: Settling

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Part IV Chapter 5: Martin

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Part IV Chapter 6: Kind of Like Normal

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Part IV Chapter 7: The Zoo

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Part IV Chapter 8: Friendly Fire

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Part IV Chapter 9: The Dailies

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Part IV Chapter 10: Changing of the Guard

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Part IV Chapter 11: Cold War Decision Making

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Part IV Chapter 12: So Long, Farewell

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Part IV Chapter 13: And Then There Were Five

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Part IV Chapter 14: Rough Reentry

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Part IV Chapter 15: Shock Wave

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Part IV Chapter 16: A Grief Across the Ocean

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Part IV Chapter 17: Is a Puzzlement

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Part IV Chapter 18: The Dog of War and the Long Shadow of Macias

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Part IV Chapter 19: Home from the Field / and Reflection

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Part IV Chapter 20: The Final Chapter

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Epilogue

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Ending Credits

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