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Cholera Pandemic IV
A crowded dock. The hiss of a steamship. Pilgrims and sailors crammed shoulder to shoulder, sharing water and stories, with no idea that the next epidemic is about to board with them.In the world of the eighteen sixties, speed and connection have become silent accomplices to disaster. The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw the Indian Ocean and eastern Mediterranean transformed. Steamships cut journey times. Railways pushed people toward ports. Armies moved on imperial schedules. Pilgrims walked, rode, and sailed, but now traveled within a system that moved faster and farther than…
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