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

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Wow - a truly amazing book. This book is well-researched. The ways this epidemic spread, those who tried to solve the problem, and different medical and scientific methods still in place today really make what could be very dry material into quite a page turner. You find yourself truly rooting for some of the characters - and this is non-fiction! I recommend this book to those interested in: English History, medicine and diseases, general nonfiction. I keep very few books permanently, but this will be one of them.