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

4.0

The story dragged in places, but had a wealth of fascinating detail about London's history, the development of cities and public health issues. Listing the topics makes them sound a bit drier than they were. Johnson starts out with a look at the bone-pickers, mud-larks and other scavengers that became part of Victorian London, then goes into other issues of removing waste from the city. Fascinating details like that are scattered through the book.