A year in the Middle East: expeditions in Iran and Afghanistan with travels in Europe and North Africa. February 4, 1954 to December 22, 1954 (Bahman 25, 1332 to Dey 1, 1333)

[Bethesda: National Institutes of Health, December 1990; revised February, 1991. 4to, pp. [2], xiv, 483, [1]; printed from typescript; map plus 141 full-page illustrations from photographs; fine in green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923-2008) was an American physician and medical researcher "who was the co-recipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on the transmissibility of kuru, implying the existence of an infectious agent, which he named an "unconventional virus." In 1954, after his military discharge, he traveled for a year in the Middle East, North (truncated) Africa, and Europe. His journals, correspondence, and photographs were published in 1991 by the National Institutes of Health. "In 1996, Gajdusek was charged with child molestation and, after being convicted, spent 12 months in prison before entering a self-imposed exile in Europe, where he died a decade later" (Wikipedia). (Inventory #: 68594)