Following a day in the life of this disappearing world

in the Bavarian Alps in 1944

wo man selbst nach interessanten Fossilien graben kann

… The island is the buffer zone between the places of the outside world

alchemical rituals and human folly

Public Health in Crisis Mimi Beaven Following a day in theEpidemics and pandemics undermine societies and highlight the vulnerability of relations people have created to the land, other species, and each other. This book presents fragments of disease management in the Mediterranean from the 15th century onwards and in the Aegean Archipelago in the last two centuries. From religious to medical approaches to the Bubonic Plague, through the creation of lazarettos, to the famine in occupied Syros, to ghost ships