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No. 28 — Water
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water

Rain, rivers, springs and the water under your feet, with a drawing on almost every page.

£12

set III · FAO 1981 · 40 pages
A5 · perfect bound · 80 gsm cream · matt cover
printed to order in England · ships in 3–5 days

drawn 1981 · rome
also in set IIINo. 27 — Freshwater Fish FarmingNo. 29 — Better Freshwater Fish Farming

Where water comes from

Rain, rivers, springs and the water under your feet, explained from first principles with a drawing on almost every page. The most purely lovely booklet in the series, and the one we would frame.

Better Farming Series No. 28 · Written and illustrated at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, and first published 1981.

This edition

  • Facsimile of the original 40 pages, cleaned and straightened, with a new foreword and a rights page
  • A5 (148 × 210 mm), perfect bound with a square spine
  • Printed to order in England on 80 gsm uncoated cream paper, with a heavy matt-laminated card cover
  • Set III · Water — colour-coded on the cover and spine so a set reads as a set on the shelf

Reproduced under licence from FAO. This is not an official FAO publication and FAO does not endorse it. The guidance inside reflects practice at the date of first publication; check current local advice before acting on it. The original scan is available free from the FAO Knowledge Repository.

No. 28 Water — front cover, Better Farming reissue
No. 28 Water — a spread from inside
No. 28 Water — a second spread
Set III · Water — the three booklets stacked