Water Witching U.S.A.
Vogt, Evon Z. and Hyman, Ray
Sold by The Parnassus BookShop, Newport, WA, U.S.A.
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Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketSold by The Parnassus BookShop, Newport, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 2 July 2008
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketChicago, Illinois-London: The University of Chicago Press-Cambridge University Press, 1959 First Edition. CR Page stated published 1959. No additional printings stated. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with the original pictorial Dust Jacket. 8vo. B/w collection of photographs, drawings, and historical woodcuts showing the tools, techniques, early instances of dowsing, and cross-sectional views contrasting the dowsers explanation of groundwater with the geologists' analysis. Blue full cloth boards are clean and unmarked with bright blue titles to spine and divining-rod on front. Cover edges lightly rubbed. Sewn binding tight, solid and square. Former owner name on endpaper. Pages in Fine Condition. Vintage dust jacket is clean, rubbed, with chipping to spine head and heel. Protected in archival sleeve. The magical, non-scientific practice of water-witching, using a forked stick to find underground water, practiced for centuries, continues today. The authors examine why this is so, studying water-witching and water-witchers extensively, with personal accounts, historical background, and data from controlled experiments. Their book also includes an appendix on scientific methods of locating ground water by H. E. Thomas of the U.S.Geological Survey. 248 pages. Bibliography. 8vo. Chicago, Illinois-London 1959, The University of Chicago Press.
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