JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR (ARCTURUS) (HB)

First published in 1722, this journal is an account of the impact of London's Great Plague of 1665. Daniel Defoe himself was only five years old at the time of the Plague and so his personal experience would have been limited. Whether novel or history or something in between, the Journal is packed with incident and insight, as well as statistics and intriguing facts, making a brilliant account of a city and its people in a terrible time.