The wet and the dry
Subtitle: a drinker's journey
By: Lawrence Osborne
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780770436889; 9780770436896
Subjects: Drinking customs; Temperance; Cross-cultural studies; Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Other titles: Drinker's journey
Description: An exploration of "man's love of drink and [a] ... meditation on the meaning of alcohol consumption across cultures worldwide"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Subtitle in pre-publication: Travels in the realms of drinking and prohibition.
Table of contents: title: Gin and tonic; title: A glass of arak in Beirut; title: Fear and loathing in the Bekaa; title: Lunch with Walid Jumblatt; title: The ally pally; title: England, your England; title: The pure light of high summer; title: New Year's in Muscat; title: The little water; title: My sweet Islamabad; title: Bars in a man's life; title: Getting a drink in a civil war; title: Usquebaugh; title: East into West; title: Twilight at the Windsor Hotel.