The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History by Phil Baker

The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History

Phil Baker

304 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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La Fee Verte (or "The Green Fairy") has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe's druglike sensations of mood lift and inspiration due to the presence of wormwood, its infamous "sp...

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