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

eBook by Johnson, Steven

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

£9.99

ISBN:
9780141915777
Publication Date:
31 Jan 2008
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Imprint:
Penguin
Pages:
320 pages
Format:
eBook
For delivery:
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The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks. (ePub eBook)

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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