Book review - Elixir: A Human History of Water by Brian Fagan: Bloomsbury, £20 IN his preface to this timely book Brian Fagan writes: “History teaches us that the societies that last longest are those ...
In Elixir, the anthropologist and archaeologist Brian Fagan sets himself a daunting task: to examine the history of mankind’s interaction with water, the most common substance on Earth but, as we now ...