![]() ![]() Rough types such as Thumbless Jake and Nasty Ned pop up like cartoon villains, but Eel proves too slippery for them, and plenty of best-of-times goodness shines from the murk.Ī solid, somber dramatization of a real-life medical mystery. Snow’s test animals, hides his little brother from their malevolent stepfather at great personal cost and ultimately helps solve the cholera mystery. Eel is a hard-edged softie who rescues drowning cats, tends to Dr. It’s impossible not to like the fictional Eel, who tells the tale in journal form from a first-person point of view, with a convincingly childcentric focus on lovable pets, lemon ice, trust and justice. ![]() Snow in linking the “blue death” to London’s water supply. ![]() The Broad Street pump story is a true one, and Hopkinson methodically chronicles the role of Dr. It’s a vile summer in the city: “hot in a thick, wet sort of way, as if the sun were a giant who’d aimed his moist, stinky breath on us all.” Chillingly, the Broad Street pump, popular for its cleaner-tasting water, is dispensing cholera with every push of the handle. ![]() John Snow identify the source of a cholera outbreak in the streets of 1854 London. A scrawny 12-year-old orphan named Eel changes history when he helps famous epidemiologist Dr. ![]()
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