The ghost map : the story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world /
A chronicle of Victorian London's worst cholera outbreak traces the day-by-day efforts of Dr. John Snow, who put his own life on the line in his efforts to prove his previously dismissed contagion theory about how the epidemic was spreading.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2007.
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| Edition: | First Riverhead trade paperback edition. |
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| Summary: | A chronicle of Victorian London's worst cholera outbreak traces the day-by-day efforts of Dr. John Snow, who put his own life on the line in his efforts to prove his previously dismissed contagion theory about how the epidemic was spreading. |
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| Item Description: | First published in 2006. |
| Physical Description: | 299 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781594482694 1594482691 |