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🏛 Grove Press 📅 2003 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9780802139931

📝 Description: The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History

Opening with the sensational 1905 Absinthe Murders, Baker offers a cultural history of absinthe, from its modest origins as an herbal tonic through its luxuriantly morbid heyday in the late 19th century. Illustrations.

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