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A History of Water

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A Times History Book of the Year 2022

A TLS Book of the Year 2022

'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES

From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal.

A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One of them - an aficionado of mermen and Ethiopian culture, an art collector, historian and expert on water-music - returns home from witnessing the birth of the modern age to die in a mysterious incident, apparently the victim of a grisly and curious murder. The other - a ruffian, vagabond and braggart, chased across the globe from Mozambique to Japan - ends up as the national poet of Portugal.

The stories of Damião de Góis and Luìs de Camões capture the extraordinary wonders that awaited Europeans on their arrival in India and China, the challenges these marvels presented to longstanding beliefs, and the vast conspiracy to silence the questions these posed about the nature of history and of human life.

Like all good mysteries, everyone has their own version of events.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780008358259
Publication date: 17th August 2023
Author: Edward WilsonLee
Publisher: William Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 352 pages
Genres: European history: Reformation
Maritime history
Biography: adventurers and explorers
True crime
European history: Renaissance
Christianity
Islam
Geographical discovery and exploration