The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.
Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.
Steven Johnson
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
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, 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. Re-creating a London full of dirt, dust heaps, slaughterhouses and scavengers, The Ghost Map is about how huge populations live together, how cities can kill
and how they can save us.
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