The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis by Adam Hart-Davis, Stephen Halliday

The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis

Adam Hart-Davis, Stephen Halliday

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

224 pages | first published 1999

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In the sweltering summer of 1858 the stink of sewage from the polluted Thames was so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of Commons. Sewage generated by a population of over two million Londoners was pouring...
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