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Water of Life: A History of Wine-Distilling and Spirits 500 BC to AD 2000 (C. Anne Wilson) Gardening and even the etiquette ofU. K. IMPORT 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. The author has explored byways of early history that have been little noticed by previous scholars, linking the art of distilling to alchemical practice; to