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

Paperback • 2006 • English

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

By John Kelly

1 Ratings • 4.0 of 5

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About the book

La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an o...Show more

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ISBN

9780060006938

Publisher

HARPER PERENNIAL

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

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

Format

Paperback

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