Dale Lightfoot

Qanat

Stream of Wells

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A rich and detailed exploration of Qanats, the remarkably engineered ancient underground aqueducts, which includes worldwide examples from the Middle East, North Africa, Mediterranean, Central Asia, China, India, Southwest USA, Central America and South America"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 880
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 170mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1538g
• ISBN-13: 9781838602178
• ISBN-10: 1838602178
• Artikelnr.: 69920975

Autorenporträt

Dale R. Lightfoot is an American geographer, academic and researcher. He is Professor Emeritus of Geography and a former Fulbright Program Advisor at Oklahoma State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
The Tradition and Global Diffusion of Qanats
Chapter 1: Form and Function of Qanats
Chapter 2: Construction and Distribution of Qanats
Chapter 3: Origins and Global History of Qanats
The Regional Geography of Qanats
Chapter 4: Iran: The Mother Lode
Chapter 5: Central and South Asia
Chapter 6: Eastward Passages: China, Korea, Japan
Chapter 7: The Arabian Peninsula
Chapter 8: Iraq
Chapter 9: Turkey and the Caucasus
Chapter 10: Syria and the Levant
Chapter 11: North Africa
Chapter 12: The Qanats of Europe
Chapter 13: The Chain Wells of Cyprus
Chapter 14: Underground Aqueducts in the Canary Islands
Chapter 15: To the New World
Completing the Story and the View Ahead
Chapter 16: Refining the Picture: Dating and Visualizing Qanats
Chapter 17: The Restoration and Future of Qanats
Notes
References