From the bestselling author of Everything Bad is Good For You, Steven
Johnson's The Ghost Map vividly recreates Victorian London to show how
huge populations live together, how cities can kill - and how they can
save us. Steven Johnson is one of today's most exciting writers
about popular culture, urban living and new technology. In The Ghost Map
he tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed
London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes - anesthetist Doctor John
Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead - who defeated the
disease through a combination of local knowledge, scientific research
and map-making.
In telling their extraordinary story, Steven
Johnson also explores a whole world of ideas and connections, from
urban terror to microbes, ecosystems to the Great Stink, cultural
phenomena to street life.
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks - Steven Johnson
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