Title: Good review
Review: This is a well written, interesting book. The most interesting aspect was not the explanation of what is known, but rather the clear lack of understanding about exactly how the Romans went about building these monumental works. The book discusses in some detail the two surviving Roman texts which address aqueducts. Much is also derived from archaeological analysis of those structures that are still standing. This is adequate but cannot fully explain how the engineers went about building them. The section on surveying in particular left me wondering if we were not missing some critical piece of information. This book can only provide the information we have about aqueducts, and cannot be faulted for the limited data we currently have. It presents that which we do know in an informative, entertaining manner.
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