{"product_id":"the-great-mortality-an-intimate-history-of-the-black-death-the-most-devastating-plague-of-all-time-9780060006938","title":"The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history, even more so now, when the notion of plague--be it animal or human--has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14th century has been of never-ending interest to both scholarly and general readers. Many books on the plague rely on statistics to tell the story: how many people died; how farm output and trade declined. But statistics can't convey what it was like to sit in Siena or Avignon and hear that a thousand people a day are dying two towns away. Or to have to chose between your own life and your duty to a mortally ill child or spouse. Or to live in a society where the bonds of blood and sentiment and law have lost all meaning, where anyone can murder or rape or plunder anyone else without fear of consequence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003cem\u003eThe Great Mortality\u003c\/em\u003e, author John Kelly lends an air of immediacy and intimacy to his telling of the journey of the plague as it traveled from the steppes of Russia, across Europe, and into England, killing 75 million people--one third of the known population--before it vanished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelly, John\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060006938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.86h x 5.90w x 0.97d","brand":"John Kelly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39409879220299,"sku":"9780060006938","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_80135cd8-c07f-499d-aeef-dd917770ccf1.jpg?v=1624331934","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-great-mortality-an-intimate-history-of-the-black-death-the-most-devastating-plague-of-all-time-9780060006938","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}