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A Short History Of Drunkenness

by Mark Forsyth
language: english
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, September of 2018 ‧
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A comic history of humankind's love affair with booze, from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Etymologicon

Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle.

A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to Prohibition, answering every possible question along the way: What did people drink? How much? Who did the drinking? Of the many possible reasons, why? On the way, learn about the Neolithic Shamans, who drank to communicate with the spirit world (no pun intended), marvel at how Greeks got giddy and Romans got rat-arsed, and find out how bars in the Wild West were never quite like in the movies.

This is a history of the world at its inebriated best.

'Haha! . . . Highly suitable for Xmas!' - Margaret Atwood

A Short History Of Drunkenness

by Mark Forsyth

Property Description
ISBN: 9780241359242
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Release Date: September of 2018
Language: English
Dimensions: 127 x 191 x 14 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 256
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > History > Story
EAN: 9780241359242

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mark Forsyth

Nascido em Londres em 1977, Mark Forsyth (também conhecido por The Inky Fool) recebeu um exemplar do Oxford English Dictionary como presente de batismo e nunca mais parou. O seu livro The Etymologicon foi um bestseller, e a sua TED Talk «What’s a Snollygoster?» teve mais de meio milhão de visualizações. Escreveu também um ensaio especialmente conhecido, «The Unknown Unknown» para a Independent Booksellers Week, e a introdução para a nova edição do Collins English Dictionary. Vive em Londres com os seus dicionários e escreve no blogue inkyfool.com.

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