The Great Stink Of London

The Great Stink of London (1999) by Stephen Halliday | Sutton Publishing
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Dive nose-first into one of Victorian London’s most revolting — and revolutionary — public health disasters. In The Great Stink of London, Stephen Halliday unearths the true story of how a city choked on its own filth until an unlikely hero, engineer Joseph Bazalgette, flushed it into the history books. Overflowing with rich detail and dark humour, this account of the 1858 "Great Stink" exposes a time when the Thames became a literal cesspool, Parliament nearly gagged into action, and modern sanitation was born out of sheer necessity.

Perfect for fans of grimy history, public works triumphs, and the kind of stench that changed the world — this isn’t just a book, it’s a breath of freshly engineered air.

Condition: Slightly musty, possibly a whiff of irony. A Crappy Old Books classic.

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