Comments on: Adam Dant’s Map Of Viral London

By: Esther

Esther — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 08:19:41 +0000

Received Adam Dant’s book; Maps of London and Beyond this week and I am enjoying myself studying all the details and hidden stories in these wonderful drawings. Wish this new map was also in it; I guess there will be more map-books from his hand? Its fascinating how much has happened in London(didn’t know there had been so many riots in London through the history)

By: Keith Waldon

Keith Waldon — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 07:29:52 +0000

Those of us with ancient roots in the area may have inherited ancestral antibodies to protect us from whatever pestilence might appear. Stay alert!

By: Jill Wilson

Jill Wilson — Sat, 30 May 2020 07:18:49 +0000

Another Adam Dant masterpiece, and a great reminder that London has suffered and survived many pandemics in the past.

Resurgam!

By: Di Corry

Di Corry — Fri, 29 May 2020 19:49:42 +0000

Absolutely fascinating Adam, full of some facts I would never have known!
Your maps are always so inspirational, thank you.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Fri, 29 May 2020 14:11:50 +0000

I know many will comment about the pandemic aspect of this — but I have often wanted to
peer over Adam Dant’s shoulder as he begins to plot one of his amazingly-unique maps. As a non-map-maker, I am featuring sheaves of tracing paper, used as a preliminary
“way in”, and perhaps a long process of refining, refining, refining. Either way — I am so glad
he is practicing his artform.

I so enjoy having Adam’s book in my art library, and recommend it heartily. The large horizontal format recalls vintage map books of yore. And yet these are one-of-a-kind map-centric interpretations of fascinating topics, page-by-page.

Thanks for shining a light, GA.

By: paul loften

paul loften — Fri, 29 May 2020 13:25:29 +0000

What a fantastic map! Thank you, Adam. although I no longer have to make the daily trek to the City I occasionally have to get down to St Paul’s by tube and take a walk to pick up some supplies. My journey will never be the same again. My poor feet in contact with the sites of Plague outbreaks, Sweating Sickness, murdered innocent dogs, Smallpox, Spanish flu, infected meat and the burial grounds of thousands of Plague victims! Thankfully, my route avoids the one horror that would haunt my mind eternally, that is of the blind man that drank to many victuals and woke up in a pit of bodies of plague victims about to be buried.

By: Stella Herbert

Stella Herbert — Fri, 29 May 2020 10:10:36 +0000

Delighted to see Adam has mentioned the hospital ships moored at Long Reach on the Thames, from 1881 I believe. My grandmother and her sister in the early 1890s were on what was known in the family as the German battleship – HMS Atlas!!
Since she survived to the age of 90 the isolation then did a good job.
But I can’t see a mention of the last London cholera epidemic of 1866 – is it hiding there?! Killed grandmother’s grandfather!!

By: Jonathon Green

Jonathon Green — Fri, 29 May 2020 08:29:08 +0000

Currently living on the site of Pardon Pits (EC1). Repurposed from the Charterhouse orchard