1st Edition
Forty Days Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 – c. 1900
By John Booker
Copyright 2022
232 Pages
1 Color & 51 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
232 Pages
1 Color & 51 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
232 Pages
1 Color & 51 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 –1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to 40 days in a lazaretto to ensure that no symptoms of plague were developing. Quarantine was performed in virtual prisons ranging from mud huts in the Danube basin to a converted fort on Malta, evoking every emotion from hatred... Read more
Introduction
1. Reasons, Regimes and Routes
2. Quarantine: the Social Leveller
3. First Impressions
4. Passing the Time
5. Reckoning and Departure
Gazetteer
Biography
Dr. John Booker, F.R.Hist.S., is an independent scholar based in Devon.
