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The Great Mortality
An Intimate History of the Black Death,
the Most Devastating Plague of All Time.
John Kelly
Hardbound with original dust jacket
384 pages with complete index
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: February 1, 2005
This book explores the times and the details of the Black Plague, and the author John Kelly introduces the lay reader to the pestilence that wiped out up to sixty percent of some of Europe's most bustling cities. From Messina to Florence to Paris to London - and all the cities and towns between and around them, the populace could not stop the spread of this particularly virulent form of Yersinia pestis, whether they sought laws to restrict it or simply chose to ignore it.
The book provides insights into some of the potential causes of why this bout of plague is unequaled in history: sanitation, specific rodent populations, societal traditions, a burgeoning "global" economy, warfare, bacteriology, and other theories. The epidemiology of the disease and the forms it takes, from the "gurgling" bubos of bubonic plague to the respiratory infection that sounds frighteningly close to the hemorrhagic fevers, make for fascinating, if gruesome, reading.
The book has been gently read, the pages are clean and bright with light wear to it's cover. Excellent condition.
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