ARGONAUT BOOKS

This is history at its most scintillating . . . What a magnificent feat of imagination and of research to tell the human story through the beauty of water. With world rivers in crisis, this book should be essential reading for policy makersNicholas Crane, author of THE MAKING OF THE BRITISH LANDSCAPESeven Rivers excels at shifting between the microscopic and the panoramic, moving from the granular details of Victorian sewage management on the Thames to the vast, modern geopolitical struggles over water rights over the Nile . . . Demanding, rewarding, and utterly necessaryTelegraph IndiaA deepl...Read More