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The wet and the dry : a drinker's journey / Lawrence Osborne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Osborne, Lawrence, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drinking customs--Cross-cultural studies.
- Drinking customs.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Cross-cultural studies.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
- Temperance--Cross-cultural studies.
- Temperance.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- 226 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Drinker's journey
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown, [2013]
- Summary:
- An exploration of "man's love of drink and [a] ... meditation on the meaning of alcohol consumption across cultures worldwide"--Dust jacket flap.
- Contents:
- Gin and tonic
- A glass of arak in Beirut
- Fear and loathing in the Bekaa
- Lunch with Walid Jumblatt
- The ally pally
- England, your England
- The pure light of high summer
- New Year's in Muscat
- The little water
- My sweet Islamabad
- Bars in a man's life
- Getting a drink in a civil war
- Usquebaugh
- East into West
- Twilight at the Windsor Hotel.
- Notes:
- Subtitle in pre-publication: Travels in the realms of drinking and prohibition.
- ISBN:
- 9780770436889
- 0770436889
- 9780770436896
- 0770436897
- OCLC:
- 818985042
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