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Whisky and Scotland
Neil M. Gunn
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Description for Whisky and Scotland
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Van Deelen, Fred. Num Pages: 192 pages, 21 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; WBXD3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
This witty, erudite and often lyrical toast to uisgebeatha, the Celts' 'water of life', takes us back into the mists of time when some happy man chanced upon the technique of producing a distillation from barley that rivalled the mead of the gods. But it is also a lament for the days when every self-respecting Highlander had his own pot still as of right. Good malt whisky, brewed and distilled in the time-honoured way, excites the same appreciation as fine wine, and there could be no more discerning guide than Neil M. Gunn, a native of Caithness and one of ... Read more
This witty, erudite and often lyrical toast to uisgebeatha, the Celts' 'water of life', takes us back into the mists of time when some happy man chanced upon the technique of producing a distillation from barley that rivalled the mead of the gods. But it is also a lament for the days when every self-respecting Highlander had his own pot still as of right. Good malt whisky, brewed and distilled in the time-honoured way, excites the same appreciation as fine wine, and there could be no more discerning guide than Neil M. Gunn, a native of Caithness and one of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Souvenir Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780285634336
SKU
V9780285634336
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About Neil M. Gunn
Neil Miller Gunn lived from 8 November 1891 to 15 January 1973. He was was a prolific novelist, critic and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the 'Scottish Renaissance' of the 1920s and 1930s. He is rated, alongside Lewis Grassic Gibbon, as one of the two most important Scottish authors in the first half of the ... Read more
Reviews for Whisky and Scotland
One of the most important Scottish writers of the twentieth century
Times Literary Supplement
Neil Gunn has given us a wonderful body of work - greater than Gibbon's and therefore the greatest achievement of its kind in modern Scottish literature, and since Walter Scott
Hugh MacDiarmid
Times Literary Supplement
Neil Gunn has given us a wonderful body of work - greater than Gibbon's and therefore the greatest achievement of its kind in modern Scottish literature, and since Walter Scott
Hugh MacDiarmid