Author: Steven Johnson

Nominated By : Cherie Smith

non-fiction

Review From: New York Times

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic  and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World is a book by Steven Berlin Johnson in which he describes the most intense outbreak of cholera in Victorian London (See 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak) There were 2 epidemics around 1850; each killed 53000+. The disease could kill in less than 24 hours. I found it to be a page turner.
I first learned of this author when I watched his PBS series "How we got to Now" which explored the history and uses of light,glass,sound, clean, cold, time.

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