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Author Osborne, Lawrence, 1958-

Title The wet and the dry : a drinker's journey / Lawrence Osborne.

Publication Info. New York : Crown, [2013]
©2013

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  394.12 OSB    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  394.13 OSB    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  394.12 OS    DUE 05-10-24
Edition First edition.
Description 226 pages ; 22 cm
Note Subtitle in pre-publication: Travels in the realms of drinking and prohibition.
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.
Summary An exploration of "man's love of drink and [a] ... meditation on the meaning of alcohol consumption across cultures worldwide"--Dust jacket flap.
Subject Drinking customs -- Cross-cultural studies.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Cross-cultural studies.
Temperance -- Cross-cultural studies.
Added Title Drinker's journey
ISBN 9780770436889 hardback $25.00
0770436889 hardback
9780770436896 eISBN
0770436897 eISBN
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