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The Ghost Map
  • Published: 11 March 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141915777
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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The Ghost Map

A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.



Strong and steady paperback market: Everything Bad is Good for You and Emergence have both sold 15000 copies

In Ghost Map Steven Johnson tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes - anaesthetist Doctor John Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead - who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge, scientific research and map-making.

In telling their extraordinary story, Johnson also explores a whole world of ideas and connections, from urban terror to microbes, ecosystems to the Great Stink, cultural phenomena to street life. Re-creating a London full of dirt, dust heaps, slaughterhouses and scavengers, Ghost Map is about how huge populations live together, how cities can kill - and how they can save us.

  • Published: 11 March 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141915777
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
Categories:

About the authors

Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of thirteen books, including Where Good Ideas Come From, Farsighted, and The Ghost Map. He's the host and cocreator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got to Now, and the host of the podcast American Innovations. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Marin County, California, with his wife and three sons.