The Plague Tales by Ann Benson

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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Plague Tales Series: #1 of The Plague Tales Author: Ann Benson Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 4, 2000 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: 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. She digs up a medieval artifact as part of her research and unwittingly releases a deadly plague bacterium on an unprepared world. These two unwilling heroes from two different centuries are linked by history and defined by circumstance. Here are their stories--the plague tales.

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