![]() ![]() Looks as if it’s hardly been read.ĭark Corner Antiques provides free uk delivery on all items.Īll our items come with complimentary Dark Corner Antiques Wrapping! □Īdditionally, oversees buyers please contact me directly so I can arrange an exact price for delivery to your country. Used book in great condition, dust cover has some curling and a small rip on bottom right. In The Great Mortality, author John Kelly lends an air of immediacy and intimacy to his telling of the journey of the plague as it traveled from the steppes of Russia, across Europe, and into England, killing 75 million peopleone third of the known populationbefore it vanished. ![]() ‘There has never been a better researched, better written or more engaging account of the worst epidemic the world has ever known than this: the countless controversies that have raged around the origins and the true nature of this terrible period in human history seem now all to have been settled by the gimlet accuracy of John Kelly’s superb and fascinating book.’ Simon Winchester Using original source material- diary fragments, letters, manuscripts - John Kelly tells a very personal account narrated by the individuals who were there. John Kelly retraces the journey and explains the scientific reasons for how the Black Death spread at lightning speed through medieval Europe. Regarded as one of the most compelling and harrowing histories of the Black Death in 14th century Europe which killed 25 million people. ![]()
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