The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History Allan L. Berkowitz ISBN13: 9781606081426

ISBN13: 9781606081426

and unless Sydney can find the key to a decades-old murder

The Kybalion--written by the hand of "Three Initiates"--has itself generated debate and controversy

With her grandparents' home still hours away and the roads growing more hazardous by the minute

The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History Allan L. Berkowitz ISBN13: 9781606081426La 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 special ingredient, which ultimately leads to delirium, homicidal mania, and death. Opening with the sensational 1905 Absinthe Murders, Phil Baker offers a cultural history of absinthe, from its modest origins as