The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Steven Johnson

ISBN 10: 1594489254 / ISBN 13: 9781594489259

Published by Riverhead Hardcover October 2006, 2006

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Dust jacket protected by mylar covering. Mylar covering is obviously reused from another book and would need to either be replaced or reattached.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
• Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover October 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594489254
• ISBN 13: 9781594489259
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First Edition
• Condition: Used - Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
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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.