A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History

Edward Wilson-Lee

‘A very few times in the course of a reader's life a book appears that shatters one's assumptions about how and why things came to pass. A History of Water is one such book. A mind-blowing achievement’ ALBERTO MANGUEL It is the 30th of January 1574 and the king’s archivist lies dead – burned or strangle...