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A History of Wine-distilling and Spirits 500 BC to AD 2000 - Paul Ferguson - 04-24-2026
Water of Life
A History of Wine-distilling and Spirits 500 BC to AD 2000
by C. Anne Wilson, Food Historian and Librarian, (1927-2023)
"This is an historical survey 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 commerical production of spirits to drink in the British Isles to the year 2000."
https://www.equinoxpub.com/projects/water-of-life