However, it is a great audiobook to listen to when cleaning. I learned that this is not a good audiobook to listen to when cooking dinner. He writes that cholera is "a supremely dark chapter in the book of death" and points out how wrong it is that people are still dying of this preventable, treatable disease. Johnson's previous books have been about how the mind works, so Ghost Map is really more about how people map information and adapt to innovations than it is a straightforward history of a particular epidemic. Scavenger classes: pure-finders, toshers, mudlarks, and others in the recycling business Mudlarks: children who scavenge junk that toshers don't want
Pure-finder: someone who finds dogshit and sells it to tanners to use in the leathermaking processs
Miasmatist: someone who believes that bad-smelling air rather than germs or bacteria cause disease (Florence Nightingale was a miasmatist) Johnson explains that a key question in the development of civilization has always been "What are we going to do with all this shit?" This book dramatically improved my vocabulary regarding topics related to 1850s London. This book is about cholera, and as a result, the author uses an impressive number of words for shit-including excrement, ordure, human waste, and the Victorian euphemism night soil. WARNING: Do not read this review if you are squeamish.
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