The Four Horsemen

Name: The Four Horsemen
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Emily Mayhew
ISBN: 9781529401707

Author: Emily Mayhew

Narrator: Karen Cass

Unabridged: 9 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: riverrun

Published: 05/06/2021

Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science, Popular Culture Studies, Political Science, History & Theory, Medical

Synopsis

In lucid and energised prose, Emily Mayhew summons the four horsemen of the apocalypse; the collective threat to humanity bearing the names of war, pestilence, famine and death. As they began in Revelations and have remained in human consciousness ever since, spanning time and space and evolving as new scientific discoveries and advancements in technology alter the world.

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About Emily Mayhew

Dr Emily Mayhew is historian in residence in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. She is the author of the Wounded trilogy: A Heavy Reckoning, The Reconstruction of Warriors, and Wounded: from Battlefield to Blighty which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize in 2014. She is Imperial College Internal Lead on the Paediatric Blast Injury Partnership, and co-edited The Paediatric Blast Injury Field Manual

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The most gripping non-fiction book I have read in a very long time

A Fascinating book The Times, on Wounded

An engaging piece of research, history and recollection The Economist, on The Guinea Pig Club

[A] thoughtful and ultimately uplifting analysis of the unsung heroes of our age Independent

Mayhew's book is rich in explanation and background detail...Although this is a scary book, it is also one full of hope Independent

The beauty of The Four Horsemen is how she takes her quaking readers to the edge of the abyss, encouraging them to peek into the darkness below, then gently pulls them back, explaining how the worst can be averted, by dint of carefully accumulated wisdom, generosity of spirit, hard work and sheer ingenuity . . . I was left moved and uplifted . . . [I]n this first-class example of popular science Mayhew demonstrates that's also where salvation lies. The Times