Review by geve_ - The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

A review by geve_
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 was already semi-familiar with this story, so I was disappointed with the actual telling of it. Rather than unfold like a mystery, it basically gets solved right away, then goes on about the people who didn't believe it and then a BUNCH of other weird shit. Wasn't the best constructed telling of this interesting part of history. Also went way off the rails several times about how urbanization is the best, then also for some reason about how terrorism is the worst part about urbanization. And went back to threat of nuclear terrorism like several times and somehow managed to talk about 9/11. So, yeah, didn't think I would be reading about 9/11 in a book about the 1854 cholera outbreak.

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

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