A River Runs Putrid: A Summer of Filth, 1858
The city of London sought in the heat of summer, 1858. But it was not merely the sun that parched the metropolis. An even more unpleasant force infested its very heart: the River Thames. Years of industrial waste had transformed London's lifeblood into a foul-smelling mire. more info The stench was oppressive, a miasma that clung to every cobblesto