The Ghost Map
A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.
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Description
Tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes - anesthetist Doctor John Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead - who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge, scientific research and map-making.
Steven Johnson is the author of the acclaimed books
Everything Bad is Good for You
(described as a 'must read' by Mark Thompson, head of the BBC),
Mind Wide Open
,
Emergence
and
Interface
Culture.
His writing appeared in the
Guardian
, the
New Yorker
,
Nation
and
Harper's
, as well as the op-ed pages of
The New York Times
and the
Wall Street Journal
. He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at NYU's School Of Journalism, and a Contributing Editor to
Wired.
He is also the co-creator of several influential web sites: FEED, Plastic, and Outside.in. He has degrees in Semiotics and English Literature from Brown and Columbia Universities. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three sons.
Steven Johnson hosts a web log at
www.stevenberlinjohnson.com