Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, C. 1700 - C. 1900

by John Booker

Book Overview

Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 -1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to 40 days in a lazaretto to ensure that no symptoms of plague were developing. Quarantine was performed in virtual prisons ranging from mud huts in the Danube basin to a converted fort on Malta, evoking every emotion from hatred and hostility through to resignation and even contentment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032050357
• ISBN13: 9781032050355
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages