This book is awesome. It's the story of London's last cholera epidemic, and how a scientist and a preacher working in parallel were able to discover how cholera is spread and inspire the invention of modern sewer systems.
It's a really hypnotizing book; I was sucked in by the foreshadowing of disaster, how you see people going about their everyday lives, not knowing that they're doing things that will kill them. And the detective story of the people solving the mystery of disease, coupled with a villain who denies the evidence even as it mounts higher and higher, makes for a compelling human story that's also the story of the scientific process. I recommend it greatly.
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