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The Dedalus Book of Absinthe [Kindle Edition]

Phil Baker (Author)

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Length: 296 pages
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Daily Telegraph, December 29, 2001

magnificent... formidably researched, beautifully written, and abundant with telling detail and pitch-black humour

Fortean Times, February, 2002

literate and cheerfully squalid... a model of popular cultural history... brilliant

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 1074 KB
Print Length: 296 pages
Publisher: Dedalus (31 May 2011)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B006WV3EL8
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful

Has all and more that one would expect on absinthe. 3 Jan 2002

By gelborn@aol.com

Format:Paperback

Absinthe, until it's recent availabilty has been a rather mysterious drink, known mainly through fiction, and with connotations of something rather destructive and dangerous. Perhaps the forerunner of some drug hastily taken during a night of clubbing today. But exactly what? How much is what was said about absinthe is the truth, and exactly why did it almost disappear? Phil Baker examines every possible conjecture about Absinthe and in separating myth from fact, still manages to maintain the mystique that this drink will always have. Fictional occurences are well quoted, and the over all good humoured tone of the book is excellent.
Apart from reading this book with a glass of absinthe at one's elbow, (and there is a guide to the best brand), it is difficult to see how this book could be bettered. It was skim read by a casual visitor who had no previous interest in the subject, and he has now bought a copy.

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful

Excellent & entertaining history of the famed Green Drink 19 May 2002

By A Customer

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This well-researched history of Absinthe is an absolute joy. It chronicles the devotion, effect, and, in some cases, destruction experienced through this drink by not only the masses but influential writers and artists such as Oscar Wilde, Aleister Crowley, Baudelaire, Ernest Dowson, Verlaine & Rimbaud, Toulouse Lautrec, Van Gogh, et al. Also contains handy reviews of currently obtainable brands of the drink. Highly recommended!

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

GOTHIC CLASSIC 8 Sep 2005

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This is brilliantly written, the writing has a kind of charm in it, and a touch of black humour. It seems extremely erudite, about poetry and nineteenth century literature and decadence and some real oddball characters, and the best thing is it is terrfically atmospheric. You can really get deep into it. I was sorry when I finished it - I will read it again one day.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. While being literary and erudite it is also a page turner. The vignettes of the lives of the writers who imbibed are marvelous and open a whole new... Read more

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