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The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London by Steven Johnson |
From the outbreak of a terrible cholera epidemic in London, 1854, which reads like a medical thriller - which indeed it turned out to be - to educated suppositions about the future of cities and popular health, this medico-social case history is based on solid geographical knowledge of a very small area in Soho, and ends considering the advantages and disadvantages of the 'city planet'. Well-written, full of historical detail and fascinating. A very unusual book.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 56 Spring 2010 ) |
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