The Black Death

by Joseph P. Byrne

Book Overview

Probably the greatest natural disaster to ever curse humanity, the Black Death's lethality is legendary, killing between a quarter to over half of any given stricken area's population. Though historians suspect a first wave of bubonic plague struck the Mediterranean area between 571 - 760 C.E., there is no doubt that the plague was carried west by the Mongol Golden Horde in the late 1340s as they raided as far west as Constantinople, where it is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313324921
• ISBN13: 9780313324925
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"