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Cover of The Ghost Map: A Street, A City, An Epidemic and The Hidden Power of Urban Networks

The Ghost Map: A Street, A City, An Epidemic and The Hidden Power of Urban Networks

โœ Scribed by Johnson, Steven

Book ID
107357561
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2008
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
5 MB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis

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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