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Plague : The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease
Plague The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease
Author: Wendy Orent
Plague is a terrifying mystery. In the Middle Ages, it wiped out 40 million people -- 40 percent of the total population in Europe. Seven hundred years earlier, the Justinian Plague destroyed the Byzantine Empire and ushered in the Middle Ages. The plague of London in the seventeenth century killed more than 1,000 people a day. In the ea...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780743236850
ISBN-10: 0743236858
Publication Date: 5/4/2004
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Free Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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