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

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2022
ISBN
9780008358235, 9780008358228
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
55 MB (57358636 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
344\0
Time added
2024-11-02 01:20:52

Description

A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One of them – an aficionado of mermen and Ethiopian culture, an art collector, historian and expert on water-music – returns home from witnessing the birth of the modern age to die in a mysterious incident, apparently the victim of a grisly and curious murder. The other – a ruffian, vagabond and braggart, chased across the globe from Mozambique to Japan – ends up as the national poet of Portugal.The stories of Damião de Góis and Luís de Camões capture the extraordinary wonders that awaited Europeans on their arrival in India and China, the challenges these marvels presented to longstanding beliefs, and the vast conspiracy to silence the questions these posed about the nature of history and of human life.

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