In the Shadow of the Black Plague: Disease, Survival, and Human Legacy: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Pandemics series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the In the Shadow of the Black Plague: Disease, Survival, and Human Legacy audiobook runs 2.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Santiago Machain (about 1.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 2.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day | 3 days |
| 2 hours / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 2 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 2.4 hours, it is shorter than 83% of the 7,179 World audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Pandemics
This is book 1. Books 1 to 5 run 14.4 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | In the Shadow of the Black Plague: Disease, Survival, and Human Legacy | 2.4 hrs |
| 2 | Smallpox | 2.8 hrs |
| 3 | Echoes of the Spanish Flu | 3.3 hrs |
| 4 | The Plague of Justinian | 2.7 hrs |
| 5 | The Journey of HIV/AIDS | 3.1 hrs |
More narrated by Santiago Machain
Santiago Machain narrates 72 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 139 hours in all.
About as long, on the World shelf
160 World audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
In the Shadow of the Black Plague: Disease, Survival, and Human Legacy is book 1 of Santiago Machain's Pandemics series: a 2.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Santiago Machain, released October 11, 2024, on the World and Europe shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 2.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Santiago Machain
- Released
- October 11, 2024
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World, Europe
- Series
- Pandemics #1
- ISBN
- 9798882485558
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the In the Shadow of the Black Plague: Disease, Survival, and Human Legacy audiobook?
In the Shadow of the Black Plague: Disease, Survival, and Human Legacy runs 2.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 1.6 hours.
Is the In the Shadow of the Black Plague: Disease, Survival, and Human Legacy audiobook free?
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Who narrates In the Shadow of the Black Plague: Disease, Survival, and Human Legacy?
In the Shadow of the Black Plague: Disease, Survival, and Human Legacy is narrated by Santiago Machain.