From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
Canals, furrows, and rice paddies. The elixir of life ; Farmers and furrows ; "Whoever has a channel has a wife" ; Hohokam : "Something that is all gone" ; The power of the waters
Waters from afar. Landscapes of Enlil ; The lands of Enki ; "I caused a canal to be cut" ; The waters of Zeus ; Aquae Romae
Cisterns and monsoons. Waters that purify ; China's sorrow
Ancient American hydrologists. The water lily lords ; Triumphs of gravity
Gravity and beyond. The waters of Islam ; "Lifting power
more certain than that of a hundred men" ; Mastery?
"Whoever has a channel has a wife"
Hohokam: "Something that is all gone"
"I caused a canal to be cut"
"Lifting power more than that of a hundred men".
