"Drink" investigates the history of the most Jekyll and Hyde of all fluids--alcohol--and traces humankind's love/hate relationship with it from ancient Egypt to the present day. Gately also provides a history of the world's most famous drinks--and the world's most famous drinkers.
When, in 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on a small island he believed to be China, he was met by representatives of the local tribe who offered him gifts of bread, fruit and dried leaves. He threw the leaves into the sea, but Columbus and his crew did not remain ignorant of these leaves'powers or purpose for long. In Africa tobacco was received ...
Gately's "Tobacco" tells the epic story of an unusual plant and its unique relationship with the history of humanity, from its obscure ancient beginnings, through its rise to global prominence, to its current embattled state today.
A provocative cultural history explores how tobacco use emerged from an obscure Native American ritual to become a global phenomenon, building and destroying fortunes and empires throughout the world.
'On almost any given day of every year, at some point on the globe, people will be gathering together in celebration - to stage parades, to venerate their gods, to dress up in disguise, or to strip to their skins and abandon themselves to pleasure ...' Essential reading for the traveling or armchair hedonist, PLANET PARTY is a tour of the world's ...
As he assesses Simon N., a city high-flyer, neurosurgeon Sir Charles Barrington finds him a model of moral soundness. But before he can complete his assessment Sir Charles is murdered, and inevitably the finger points at Simon. Could Sir Charles have been so wrong? Or are more evil forces at work?
Minerva Linwood's brother has lost a fortune to the evil Earl of Gorleston, and it is up to her to save their home. Minerva's carefully worked-out plan goes awry, and she finds herself sharing a dark dungeon with the infamous Earl--getting comeuppance for his carnal desires!
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