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The ghost map : a street, an epidemic and two men who battled to save Victorian London

Johnson, Steven, 1968-2008
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Steven Johnson takes the reader day by day through the cholera epidemic of 1854 - which would consume 50,000 lives in England and Wales - and recreates a London full of dust heaps, furnaces and slaughterhouses.
Main title:
The ghost map : a street, an epidemic and two men who battled to save Victorian London / Steven Johnson.
Author:
Johnson, Steven, 1968-
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2008.
Collation:
320 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2006.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141029368 (pbk)
Dewey class:
614.514094614.514614.5140942614.51409421
Language:
English
Subject:
Snow, John, 1813-1858Whitehead, Henry, 1825-1896Cholera -- England -- London -- History -- 19th centuryUrban ecology -- England -- London -- History -- 19th centuryEpidemiology -- HistoryHealth and Wellbeing
BRN:
1397199
Bookmark link:
https://medway.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1397199

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