It was 13 days later, back home in the Netherlands, when the woman felt the first flush of illness soon, her fever climbed, her organs failed, she went into a coma. For several minutes, she and her party peered into the darkness and breathed the hot, pungent air, as they gingerly stepped across rocks slick with bat guano. In 2008, a Dutch woman on a guided trek through Uganda climbed gamely down into a remote, sunken cave - a cave better known for the few indolent pythons underfoot than for the tens of thousands of bats that teemed overhead. By David Quammen (Norton 587 pages $28.95)
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