Water of Life

by C. Anne Wilson and Anne Wilson

This important book looks at the entire history of distilling in the Middle East and Europe from the earliest experiments by the Pythagorean alchemists of Ptolomaic Egypt in the fourth century BC to the commercial production of spirits to drink in the British Isles to the year 2000. It is important because Ms Wilson has explored byways of early history that have been little noticed by previous scholars. She links the art of distilling to alchemical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903018463
• ISBN13: 9781903018460
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Prospect Books (UK)
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.8" x 9.6"