Elixir : a history of water and humankind
Title:
Elixir : a history of water and humankind
Format:
Books
Author:
Publication Date(s):
2011
ISBN:
9781608190034
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
400 p.
Contents:
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 -- AquaeRomae -- 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".
Requests:
