A review by hzb333
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

3.0

I would give this one 2.5 stars if I could. The information about Victorian London was interesting the rest of it (basically a love song to modern cities) was not. Between the long, sometimes unnecessary quotes from original sources and the ode to modern cities, I felt like this author stretched to create something long enough to be a book. I think it would have been more interesting if there was more information on the people involved from that time period or even more information on the engineer who created London's modern sewage and fresh water lines.