The Ghost Map
57. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, by Steven Johnson. 256 pages. (2006)
Grade: B
This is a history of London's great cholera outbreak of 1853, and how it was solved by two locals, Dr. John Snow and the Rev. Henry Whitehead. They managed to prove, using the "ghost map," that the cause of cholera was in the water, not in the air, as almost universally believed at the time.
This was an interesting book, but I'm still trying to decide what the last chapter had to do with the rest of it. The last chapter seemed to be mostly about suitcase nuclear bombs. What?
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50bookchallenge,
calm
