The Independently Published The Great Stink: How London Built Its Sewers and Beat Cholera, 1858-75 Paperback

In the summer of 1858, the stench from the Thames became so unbearable that Parliament draped its curtains in lime chloride and considered relocating. The Great Stink forced London to confront a crisis of its own making: a river choked with raw sewage, and a city in the grip of recurring cholera outbreaks that killed tens of thousands.This edition includes an original map of mid-Victorian London's sewer network, plus data-rich tables and timelines that trace the engineering, politics, and epidemiology step by step. Anecdotes are sourced to contemporary accounts and primary documents by name-from engineer Joseph Bazalgette's own reports to the diaries of MP John Thwaites-so you see exactly how the system was built and how the fight against cholera was won.For readers of narrative nonfiction and popular history who want the full, factual story of a city that rebuilt itself from the sewers up.