A Dark History of Whisky (Hardback)
Imprint: Pen & Sword History
Pages: 200
Illustrations: 50+ mono illustrations
ISBN: 9781399034067
Published: 28th February 2025
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The book you hold in your hands is not a standard whisky book. Of course, it does contain information that can be found in countless other books on the subject, such as tasting notes, distillery histories and the general development of the golden liquid we all adore. A whisky book that did not contain such information would be odd indeed, but the emphasis in the following narrative is very much on the darker history of the drink. Whisky noir, if you please.
Within these pages can be found cannibals, ghouls and ghosts - unlikely tales that all have one thing in common; whisky. Not just whisky, though, for we are delving deep into the amber gold and turning over a history that has never been told. Until now.
Interspersed with whisky quotes, some well-known, other’s more obscure, with this book to hand the reader will never be without an interesting snippet of conversation when sharing a whisky with friends.
As someone who is trying to learn to love whisky, I found this book fascinating. I spend a lot of time around the product but never truly knew anything about the amber liquid. I will for sure now be blowing friends minds (or boring them) with the new found knowledge. This is such an interesting book!
NetGalley, ashley marie
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
NetGalley, Karen Bull
Very interesting book.
Love my whisky and this really helped teach side of my favourite drink that I didn't know.
Great gift for Xmas.
About Gary Dobbs
Welsh author Gary Dobbs is best known as a fiction writer. Using the pen name Jack Martin, he is responsible for a string of best-selling westerns as well as the popular crime series, Granny Smith. The latter published under his own name.
Cardiff and the Valleys in the Great War is his first major non-fiction work and he felt both humbled and proud to tackle the project. Hours of research were involved in compiling the stories presented within these pages, and alongside the grim statistics the author feels that there is a very human story that he was deeply privileged to tell.