The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London

The Ghost Map

A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London

2006 • 299 pages

Ratings39

Average rating3.8

15

It's like a murder mystery, but you already know the culprit. It's history, but it's entertaining. It's informative. Exciting. Emotional(?). For the layperson.

You'll be there with Dr. John Snow (no relation to the Westerosi) as he tries to convince the public health board of his theory, presumably rooting for him to win against the commonly held beliefs that all disease is caused by smell and that commoners get sick because ew, they're lower class. Or you may side with that.

It's like watching Monk or House, but... this shit is real. (And really shitty.)

And then he starts talking about nuclear bombs. wtf?

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