The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

John Kelly

400 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced

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The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history, even more so now, when the notion of plague—be it animal or human—has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concernThe plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14t...

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