In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
New York: The Free Press, 2001.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 245pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Black paper over boards with spine backed in red and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, takingmillion lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren -- the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the awful end by respiratory failure -- are more or less accurate. But what the Plague really was and how it made history remain shrouded in a haze of myths.
Now, Norman Cantor, the premier historian of the Middle Ages, draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and groundbreaking historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.(Publisher). Very good / very good. Item #7117
ISBN: 0684857359
Price: $15.00