The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse

Epidemic diseases such as plague, scarlet fever, measles, smallpox, and disasters such as famine and drought have caused the death of millions of people throughout history, stopped armies thought to be invincible, and shaped our social relations and our behavior towards our relatives and loved ones. However, these mass deaths did not start spontaneously out of nowhere, and epidemic diseases did not enter us like uninvited guests; People did their best to make microbes take on the role of "the monster that causes mass deaths", but they could not do anything after the deaths started. In The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse, which is a world history in terms of bacteria and microbes, Andrew Nikiforuk examines the close relationship of social life with diseases from an environmentalist perspective, and suggests that we make peace with micro-organisms, the oldest inhabitants of our world.

A stunning, colorful work.
- The Observer

An extraordinary book about the history of epidemics...
Extraordinary and illuminating.
-New Scientist-



Number of Pages: 286

Year of Printing: 2007


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 286

First Print Year: 2007

Language Turkish