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Water of life : a history of wine-distilling and spirits : 500 BC-AD 2000 C. Anne Wilson
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks TP 590.5 .W55 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, C. Anne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Distilling industries--History.
- Distilling industries.
- Liquors--History.
- Liquors.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Totnes : Prospect, 2006.
- Summary:
- The author provides a history of distilling in the Middle East and Europe from the earliest experiments by the Pythagorean alchemists of Ptolomaic Egypt to the commercial production of spirits in the British Isles. This work includes the manufacture of spiritous liquors such as whisky, gin, and others.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781903018460
- 1903018463
- OCLC:
- 70128677
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