Elixir : a history of water and humankind

9781608190034
160819003X

First U.S. edition

xxvii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Human history of water

Includes bibliographical references and index

The elixir of life
Farmers and furrows
"Whoever has a channel has a wife"
Hohokam: "Something that is all gone"
The power of the waters
Landscapes of Enlil
The lands of Enki
"I caused a canal to be cut"
The waters of Zeus
Aquae Romae
Waters that purify
China's sorrow
The water lily lords
The triumph of gravity
The waters of Islam
"Lifting power more than that of a hundred men"

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