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Water : a turbulent history

Author: Stephen Halliday
Publisher: Stroud : Sutton, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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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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