The Ghost Map
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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 - and what it means to us today, from the way we understand cities, science, disease, and the modern world.
The book was released on October 19th 2006.
[edit] External links
- Video of Steven Johnson talking about THE GHOST MAP
- Blog post written by Steven Johnson just after finishing the first draft of the book