Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs : Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Literary Fiction and for Book of the Year (2006) inspired by Tibetan Buddhist art

inspired by Tibetan Buddhist art and linking history to memory

devastatingly anticolonialist—and full of heartbreak

But when a suspicious fire ravages an elderly woman's crumbling tenement

and from Singapore

and the one we feel we should have had or might yet have

Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs : Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Literary Fiction and for Book of the Year (2006) inspired by Tibetan Buddhist artFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large scale spreading of disease are these terrifying agents and implements of warfare modern inventions? Not by a long shot. Weapons of biological and chemical warfare have been in use for thousands of years, and Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs, Adrienne Mayor's fascinating exploration of the origins of biological and unethical warfare draws extraordinary connections between the mythical