Author: Eddie CampbellPublisher: Top Shelf Productions
ISBN: 1603093427
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
VOLUME FIVE contains Book 9: King Bacchus and Book 10: Banged Up, with new notes from the author.
Bacchus 5
Author: Eddie CampbellPublisher: Top Shelf Productions
ISBN: 1603093427
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
VOLUME FIVE contains Book 9: King Bacchus and Book 10: Banged Up, with new notes from the author.
Eighteen Canzonets, etc
Author: John TraversBacchus & Me
Author: Jay McInerneyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762785489
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
With acerbic wit, irreverent tone, and bountiful hilarious anecdotes, Jay McInerney writes the first wine book that makes sense to all those dazed by the prevailing, dull technical wine writing. McInerney generously reveals all he's learned on his worldwide journey to understand wine in chapters on reds, whites, dessert wines, champagne, aperitifs, and more. McInerney holds forth in forty-nine essays - with agile humor; an astonishing amount of hard fact, and an ample dose of personal taste - on: how to make your way around a German wine label; what to drink with Thanksgiving turkey; the truth about Zinfandels; why Burgundy is so hard to predict; Napa Valley's finest winemakers; the pleasure of flinty Chablis, the deep satisfaction of port, the glorious potential of Oregon's Pinot Noir; the respectability of RosT; and the most colorful characters in the business. It is actually possible for a reader of Bacchus & Me to take what is learned to the bank, and immediately thereafter to wine shop or restaurant to indulge in the wine of his or her fantasy with the confidence of a sommelier. Bacchus & Me is for everyone interested in learning more about the wines of the world. For both those of broad means and of modest purse, there is intense vicarious pleasure to be found in McInerney's vinous adventures.
Guide to the Turf
Author: Ruff WilliamThe Story of Bacchus
Author: Andrew DalbyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780714122557
Category : Dionysus (Greek deity)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This, the first in a series of 'biographies' of famous gods and goddesses from The British Museum is ideal reading for all who enjoy popular biography and travel writing and tells the story of the god Bacchus, also known as Dionysus. It begins on the banks of the River Asopos at Thebes, where Zeus, all-seeing king of the gods, caught sight of the beautiful mortal Semele. The baby Bacchus was the result of their brief affair, delivered, it is said, from a womb fashioned in his father's thigh and with tiny horns protruding from his head. Thus a strange beginning was to lead to even stranger tales, passed down through generations of dramatists, poets, story-tellers and historians to become today mere myths from a long-ago world. Pieced together here, they tell of Bacchus's youth spent on Mount Nysa among the nymphs and Satyrs; of his relentless pursuit by the anger of the goddess Hera; of his victory over India while still a mortal; and of his many love affairs, most famously with Ariadne. But Bacchus is best remembered for his gift to humanity of wine. With it he brought pleasure, but also savagery and death. With many intriguing episodes drawn from an astonishing range of sources - including obscure and fragmentary records detailing the songs chanted by initiates at secret rites - this biography brings the strangely powerful wine-god to life as never before.
Our Boys and Girls
Author: Oliver OpticTears of Bacchus
Author: Michael KaramPublisher:
ISBN: 9781908531834
Category : Viticulture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tears of Bacchus relates the story of wine in the Middle East, essentially Lebanon and Syria, from the dawn of time to the present day in the form of a linear series of essays written in various "voices"--historian, archaeologist, novelist, wine writer, journalist, curator, anthropologist. It charts wine's influence on early civilizations and cultures, religion and mythology, before heading off into the Byzantine, Medieval Ottoman and ultimately the modern era, an age defined by strife and instability. With an introduction by Hugh Johnson.
The Willing World
Author: James BacchusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428215
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Explains how to grow and govern the global economy in ways that will work economically and environmentally for sustainable development.
The Racing Calendar
Author: The Boys' and Girls' Readers
Author: Emma Miller BoleniusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This series of readers is prepared for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, and the lessons critically examined by primary and elementary teachers. These are basal readers, and provide for all forms of training in reading: silent, oral, reference, sight reading, intensive and interpretative reading. Foundations for good study habits are carefully laid. The keynote of this course is "reading is thinking."