It brilliantly illuminates the intertwined histories of the spread of viruses, the rise of cities, and the nature of scientific inquiry. Wilson, and James Gleick, The Ghost Map is a riveting story with a real-life historical hero. With enthralling suspense, Johnson chronicles Snow's day-by-day efforts as he risks his own life to prove how the epidemic is being spread.įrom the dynamic thinker routinely compared to Malcolm Gladwell, E.O. John Snow, whose ideas about contagion had been dismissed by the scientific community, is spurred to intense action when the people in his neighborhood begin dying.
A devastating cholera outbreak seizes London just as it is emerging as a modern city: more than two million people packed into a 10-mile circumference, a hub of travel and commerce, teeming with people from all over the world, continually pushing the limits of infrastructure that's outdated as soon as it's updated. The Ghost Map takes place in the summer of 1854.
John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world. This is a thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London and a brilliant exploration of how Dr.
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