So many of my reviews of books I enjoy include an element of "Who'd have thought that a book about ..... would be so engaging, even exciting".The story of how the Cholera outbreak in London in 1854 led to the discovery of airborne bacteria, and probably why we're still here and able to read, is just such a book.
It's part history (how horrible life was for anyone but the rich in 17th Century London), part science (how little was known at the time about germs, bacteria and disease), and part detective story (how an enterprising pair: a cleric and a doctor, track the thousands of cases on the map in order to learn how the disease was spreading).
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