In this spellbinding novel of adventure and science, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium--the invisible seeds of a new Bubonic Plague. In the year 1348, a physician journeys to England on an impossible mission to save the royal family from the Black Death. In the year 2005, a scientist unearths a terror laying dormant in the soil for nearly 700 years. Their stories are linked by history and defined by circumstances. They are the plague tales. Online (...
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In this spellbinding novel of adventure and science, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium--the invisible seeds of a new Bubonic Plague. In the year 1348, a physician journeys to England on an impossible mission to save the royal family from the Black Death. In the year 2005, a scientist unearths a terror laying dormant in the soil for nearly 700 years. Their stories are linked by history and defined by circumstances. They are the plague tales. Online (...
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Good. No dust jacket. cover soiled in several spots, writing on front and rear endpapers; text and binding fine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 474 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Book Royal octavo, hardcover, fine in fine black glossy pictorial dj. Fourteenth-century physician Alejandro Guzman, caught performing an autopsy in Spain, flees across Europe at the time of the Black Death to escape execution for his heretical deed. When he arrives in the Papal city of Avignon, he is conscripted against his will to serve as a Plague Doctor in the court of England's Edward III. Unfolding in a dramatic counterpoint is the story of American medical archaeologist Janie Crowe, in England at the turn of the 21st century to recover from the tragic loss of her family. 474 pp.
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Very Good. 4 NEW AUDIO CASSETTE EDITION. BRAND NEW Audio Cassette Tapes NEW IN THE SHRINK WRAP. Just a bit of shelf wear to the box. Enjoy this RELIABLE NEW AUDIO CASSETTE BOOK for your home, library and gift giving.
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Good. 4 RELIABLE and sturdy audio cassette tapes withdrawn from the library. Some shelf wear and library markings to the clamshell box and the cassettes. The four cassettes sit inside tested and clear sounding. Enjoy this worthwhile abridged audio performance!
I loved this book as well as the other two, The Burning Road and The Physician's Tale, that are associated with The Plague Tales. The author is well educated about medicine and the Plague. Now that I have read all three, I'm hoping that Ms. Benson will write more. She's a very, very wonderful storyteller! I HIGHLY recommend all 3 books.
rusty6732
Jul 1, 2008
Very interesting
Have read this book before and, several years later, am reading it again. It lends itself quite well to taking the reader back several centuries into the time of the "black death" and returning to the present time, presenting the plague as horrifying an event now as it must have been then. The writing is interesting, keeping the reader engaged in the story, although the book is several hundred pages long. Rusty