The Dedalus Book of Vodka - Couverture rigide

Elborn, Geoffrey

 
9781907650048: The Dedalus Book of Vodka
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1907650040 ISBN 13 : 9781907650048
Editeur : Dedalus Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

No other drink can claim to have influenced the course of human affairs more than vodka. The green serpent transformed the Russian state into a great power but it helped to destroy both tsarism and communism as well as the lives of millions of Russian peasants. From Boris Yeltsin being dropped in a font and Shostakovich being cured of writer s block to the great vodka debauch of the Russo-Japanese War and the Churchill-Stalin drinking duel at Yalta, the spirit determined the lives of individual Russians and the fate of a nation. Both sophisticated and brutal, vodka is the best-selling spirit in the world. Distilled from rye or the humble potato, it has been known since the fourteenth century, when it was first used as a medicine, but it took James Bond and the Cold War to make it glamorous in the West, particularly with younger drinkers. The book has 28 black and white illustrations.

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À propos de l?auteur

Geoffrey Elborn has written three biographies and contributed to many other books, most recently The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He reviews for various journals and newspapers.

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Éditeur
Dedalus Ltd
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1907650040
ISBN 13 
9781907650048
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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