It is history's most feared disease. It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead. Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium--the invisible seeds of a new bubonic plague.
In the year 1348, a disgraced Spanish physician crosses a landscape of horrors to Avignon, France. There, he will be sent on an impossible mission to England, to save the royal family from the Black Death....
Nearly seven hundred years later, a woman scientist digs up a clod of earth in London. In a world where medicine is tightly controlled, she will unearth a terror lying dormant for centuries.
From the primitive cures of the Middle Ages to the biological police state of our near future, The Plague Tales is a thrilling race against time and mass destruction. For in 2005, humankind's last hope for survival can come only from one place: out of a dark and tortured past.
In the year 1348, a disgraced Spanish physician crosses a landscape of horrors to Avignon, France. There, he will be sent on an impossible mission to England, to save the royal family from the Black Death....
Nearly seven hundred years later, a woman scientist digs up a clod of earth in London. In a world where medicine is tightly controlled, she will unearth a terror lying dormant for centuries.
From the primitive cures of the Middle Ages to the biological police state of our near future, The Plague Tales is a thrilling race against time and mass destruction. For in 2005, humankind's last hope for survival can come only from one place: out of a dark and tortured past.
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Hardback Editions
March 2001 : Library Binding
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May 1997 : Hardback
| Title: The Plague Tales Author(s): Ann Benson ISBN: 0-385-31651-8 / 978-0-385-31651-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Delacorte Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
May 1998 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: The Plague Tales Author(s): Ann Benson ISBN: 0-440-22510-8 / 978-0-440-22510-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Dell Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Audio Editions
May 1997 : Audio Cassette
| Title: The Plague Tales Author(s): Ann Benson ISBN: 0-553-47733-1 / 978-0-553-47733-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
April 2011 : Kindle edition
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June 1998 : Turtleback
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1997 : Unknown
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