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The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.

By Steven Johnson

Book information

Publisher
Penguin
Year
2008
ISBN
0141029366, 9780141029368
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
6 MB (6356219 bytes)
Pages
320\0
Time added
2012-06-05 09:02:39

Description

In Ghost Map Steven Johnson tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes – anaesthetist 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, 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. Re-creating a London full of dirt, dust heaps, slaughterhouses and scavengers, Ghost Map is about how huge populations live together, how cities can kill – and how they can save us.

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