The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London by Steven Johnson

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London

Steven Johnson

299 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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At 6am on 28 August 1854, the city of London struggled to sleep at the end of an oppressively hot summer. But at 40 Broad Street, Soho, Sarah Lewis was awake tending to her feverish baby girl. As she threw a used bucket of water into the cesspool ...

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