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

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ISBN-10:   0060006935
ISBN-13:   9780060006938
Publisher:   HarperCollins; Harper Perennial
Series:   P. S. Ser.
Category:   Young Adults
Pub. Date:   February 2006
Pages:   364
Format:   Paperback


Awards
2005  Quill Awards  Winner! 
2006  Original Voices Award  Nominee/Honoree 
2007  Book Sense Book of the Year  Winner! 
2007  Alex Awards  Winner! 
2007  Great Lakes Book Awards  Winner! 


Subjects
BLACK DEATH


Description/Notes
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 called the Black Death. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born.
The author tracks the medieval plague from its beginnings in Central Asia to its devastating impact on the teeming cities of Europe, painting a vivid picture of what the end of the world looked like in the 14th century.
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