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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Halliday |
| ISBN: | 0750933003 9780750933001 |
| OCLC Number: | 56656003 |
| Description: | 246 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue: 'Water, water, everywhere' -- Water for drinking: Sir Hugh Myddleton, the New River and clean water -- Too much water: Sir Cornelius Vermuyden and the draining of the fens -- The inland waterways and the industrial revolution -- Water as power: waterwheels, steam and electricity -- Water as deadly danger -- Water, landscape and literature: Wordsworth and the Lake School -- 'Taking the waters': water, health and recreation -- Epilogue : Water in the twenty-first century. |
| Responsibility: | Stephen Halliday. |
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