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512 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780712667265
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Pimlico
Publication date: 23 January 2006
Description
The modern idea of 'mastery' over nature always had its critics, whether their motives were aesthetic, religious or environmentalist. By investigating how the most fundamental element - water - was 'conquered' by draining fens and marshes, straigh...
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512 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780712667265
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Pimlico
Publication date: 23 January 2006
Description
The modern idea of 'mastery' over nature always had its critics, whether their motives were aesthetic, religious or environmentalist. By investigating how the most fundamental element - water - was 'conquered' by draining fens and marshes, straigh...