Buoyed by first-person recollections of long-time residents, rowed by the seamless writing of an experienced historian and anchored by an astonishing array of archival photographs, "Ebb and Flow: Life ...
The trouble with water, Giulio Boccaletti reminds us in his sweeping “Water: A Biography,” is that it moves. Rivers flood; rain clouds drift away; oceans rise. When human beings lived as nomadic ...