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🏛 Prospect Books (UK) 📅 2006 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9781903018460

📝 Description: Water of Life: A History of Wine-Distilling and Spirits 500bc to AD 2000

A history of distilling, both Middle Eastern and European, from the earliest experiments by alchemists in Egypt, 4th century BC.

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