# The Ghost Map

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- Book: [The Ghost Map](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-johnson/the-ghost-map) ([The Ghost Map.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-johnson/the-ghost-map.md))
- Authors: [Steven Johnson](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-johnson)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4102-936-8
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2008-01-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.