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

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

John Kelly with Matthew Lloyd Davies (Narrator)

12 hours, 55 minutes first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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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 cal...

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