In the first part of Ghost Map we learn about the Victorian Age in London and how terrible the environment and the situation is. I can relate this reading to when we watched that short video clip on Victorian Age. Johnson does a great job at giving us reality in this book. The Environment people had to live in was horrible, there was trash, smell and it was just a dirty place. Not only was the environment bad but a bad epidemic started called Cholera Epidemic. Cholera was a horrible disease that was spreading all over London and killing people by millions. The symptoms were terrible; Diarrhea, muscle spasms, dehydration, hypertension, and at the same time, you remain conscious of it all. The Cholera epidemic was taking lives like no other in mostly in Soho. Soho became one of the busiest parts of London. I found it interesting how in the book he mentions people we have studied like Karl Marx and some other people. This book gets more interesting as it develops.
