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The Joy of Drinking The Joy of Drinking, ISBN 9781596913370 and books by Barbara Holland on sale at thebookshelf.co.nz The Joy of Drinking tells the remarkable, idiosyncratic story of the worlds love affair with drinking. With characteristic elegance and delicious wit, Barbara Holland, (a national treasure.– Philadelphia Inquirer) celebrates the age–old act of drinking in this gimlet–eyed survey of mans relationship with booze, since the joyful discovery, ten thousand years ago, of fermented fruits and grains. In this spirited pan to alcohol, two parts cultural history, one part personal meditation, Holland takes readers on a bacchanalian romp through the Fertile Crescent, the Mermaid Tavern, Plymouth Rock, and Capitol Hill and reveals, as Faulkner famously once said, how civilization indeed begins with fermentation. Filled with tasty tid bits about distillers, bootleggers, taverns, hangovers, and Alcoholics Anonymous, The Joy of Drinking is a fascinating portrait of the world of pleasures fermented and distilled About the AuthorBarbara Holland is the author of fourteen previous books, including Gentlemens Blood, Hail to the Chiefs, and They Went Whistling, and has written for Smithsonian, Glamour, Playboy, the Utne Reader, Redbook, Seventeen, and the Washington Post, among many others. She lives in Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains.
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