Giulio Boccaletti (2021): Water: A Biography. Pantheon: London.
Writing with authority and brio, Giulio Boccaletti—honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford—shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers. Even as he describes how these societies were made… Read More Giulio Boccaletti (2021): Water: A Biography. Pantheon: London.