The Water Book

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Indeed, he suggests, the further we travel, the more anxious and even aggressive we become when encountering those who look and act differently from ourselves.

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This engaging breadth of interest might make us wish the book, at 176 pages, were a little longer to accommodate its investigative spirit. Of all known liquids,” wrote the great water chemist Felix Franks, “water is probably the most studied and least understood. His passionate point is that it needn’t be like this, and to prove it he takes us back to Portugal in the 16th century.Ambitious, assured and very well written, Water: A Biography is an impressive and very welcome addition to the literature. Executive producers are Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning and Emile Sherman for See-Saw Films, Niv Fichman for Rhombus Media, and Jo McClellan for the BBC.

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As humanity strays across planetary boundaries, Boccaletti’s political biography of water is essential reading. Of particular interest here is The Lusiads, his epic account of Vasco da Gama and the Portuguese heroes who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope opening a new route to India. Giulio Boccaletti makes a strikingly original and persuasive case that the history of human civilization can be understood as a never-ending struggle over water. There is something about the indeterminacy of his end that suits a life spent resisting the idea of closed or coercive narratives.Then we meet sea gooseberries and arrow-worms, and learn that the white cliffs of Dover are made of plankton corpses.

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The book is a real tour de force; it should be essential reading for every politician, as well as the rest of us. The unnamed protagonist of Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut novel, a young black photographer, often reflects on his artistic process: he is principally trying to compose images that “portray a rhythm”. From antiquity to today’s precipice of water scarcity, he spins a dramatic, sweeping story that forces the reader to reappraise all of human history through a water lens. Casting an offensive water spell from the standard spellbook with a charged tome equipped will increase the spell's accuracy and damage by 20% (stacking multiplicatively with Magic damage bonuses), and consume one charge per cast. Far more than a biography of its nominal subject … The book stands as a compelling history of civilization itself.Giulio Boccaletti takes us on an extraordinary journey through water history, from the retreating glaciers of the ice age which shaped the landscape and the livelihoods of local communities,to the emergence of nation states and the industrialised world, presided over by democrats, despots and dreamers. Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. The north water of the title is the North Water Polynya, to which ships sail in the hunt and kill whales.

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It shouldn’t be, having formed from planetesimals at a distance from the sun that should have made it drier. Don’t be misled by the introduction: although he begins by quoting the usual suspects – Conrad, Melville, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – and talks of the cultural place of water in history and religion, humans play second fiddle. The surviving accounts agree that there were signs of violence, but conflict over whether he was burnt or strangled and whether he was at home or at an inn. A transformative, dramatic and revelatory tale of how our struggle to master water defines us as humans.

The arm which isn’t trapped between her body and yours stretches towards her, and she pulls it across her body like a blanket, curling in tight. The charge was that he was insufficiently devoted to the Catholic church – he was believed to be a secret Lutheran or, at least, someone who didn’t think that the outwards fiddle faddle of religion mattered much compared with what was going on inside.