# Edward Wilson Lee: A History of Water

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Podcast: [John Sandoe Books](https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-sandoe-books-94113)
Published: 2022-09-21T14:37:22+00:00
Episode link: https://johnsandoe.podbean.com/e/edward-wilson-lee-a-history-of-water/
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## Resource

A History of Water is a riddling title but the subtitle, Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History, points towards its rich cultural and historical context.Edward Wilson-Lee is a Cambridge academic who specialises in making big stories out of archival minutiae. His superb new book follows the paths of two men in sixteenth-century Portugal. One, a humane and intellectually curious archivist to the King, was found dead in 1574 after falling foul of the Inquisition. The other was a rogue who become the Portuguese national poet. Beyond its intrigue as a murder investigation, this is a spectacular portrait of the world's expansion during the period, and how the imperial attitudes that resulted might have been otherwise. Interviewed by John de Falbe Edited by Magnus Rena Music: Josquin Des Prez, Sanctus "D'ung aultre amer"

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