Water The Vital Essence Author:Peter Briggs This book is all about man's relationship to water; fresh water, salt water, rain, snow and ice. The relationship is one of the most contrary, paradoxical things in nature. Human beings are physically, mostly water; they cannot live without it; yet water manifested as floods hurricanes, and storms at sea is often fatal to man. The oceans can ... more »be hiding places for the nation's enemies, but they also provide great stores of fish and great lakes of oil can be tapped from their beds.« less