The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Johnson, Steven
ISBN 10: 1594489254 ISBN 13: 9781594489259
Published by Riverhead Hardcover, 2006
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Synopsis:
A historical chronicle of Victorian London's worst cholera outbreak traces the day-by-day efforts of Dr. John Snow, who put his own life on the line in his efforts to prove his previously dismissed contagion theory about how the epidemic was spreading. 80,000 first printing.
About the Author:
Steven Johnson is the author of the national bestsellers Everything Bad Is Good for You and Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, as well as Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software and Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate.
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Title: The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most ...
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: very_good