The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks (repost)
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks by Steven Johnson
English | ISBN: 0141029366 | 2008 | EPUB + MOBI | 320 pages | 6 + 6 MB
English | ISBN: 0141029366 | 2008 | EPUB + MOBI | 320 pages | 6 + 6 MB
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.