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Ashley Wilkes for Real.......2004-03-10
For those who know it, the Huguenot-derived name "Pettigrew" immediately evokes the associated word, "Gettysburg." Brig. Gen. Johnston Pettigrew was prominent on the first day of that battle, as the commander of Pettigrew's Brigade, and on the third day, as the commander of Heth's Division, which included his brigade. Pickett's Charge might as well have been called Pettigrew's Charge, or, as Clyde Wilson suggests, "Longstreet's Assault." But as it is, there is still no Gettysburg without Pettigrew. Not long after that Fourth of July that coincided with the fall of Vicksburg and Pettigrew's own birthday, the Army of Northern Virginia was without Pettigrew. He was killed in the chaos of a rear-guard action at Falling Waters, and his loss was much lamented, for it seems that everyone knew his quality.
Pettigrew's Civil War career was not consonant with his ability, and that was almost certainly a matter of luck. He was active in organizing the defense of Charleston before the Fort Sumter crisis but played no great role in the thing itself. He was wounded and captured at Seven Pines or Fair Oaks Station, the beginning of the Seven Days. Exchanged, he served under D.H. Hill in the abortive action at New Bern and at the affair at Blount's Creek. Clyde Wilson has not written for us the story of a Confederate brigadier, however, but an account of a mind and sensibility that could not be completely expressed in the Civil War.
Johnston Pettigrew grew up as the scion of a distinguished and landed family in North Carolina. He excelled at school and at the university at Chapel Hill. He was soon surveying stars for Matthew Fontaine Maury at the National Observatory. But what was Pettigrew to do as his lifetime calling? Though Pettigrew eventually did much legal work in Charleston, Wilson has shown how his energy and sensitivity were focused by his travels in Europe. Unusually mature for his age and exceptionally responsive to the various environments, Pettigrew's two trips to Europe were the high points of his life. His mind and imagination were excited to a remarkable degree by his encounters with others, and, as always with him, there was a gap between his emotional and intellectual responses. Pettigrew was later to declare that he wished as his lifework to write a history of the Moors in Spain. He did not live to do it, but his serious intent speaks volumes about his imagination, his historical sense, and his ability to think past the provinciality that is often the lot even of intelligent people.
Pettigrew did not write of medieval Spain, but he did write a book, in the spring of 1861, about Spain, his travels there, and his reflections. He had the ability to see past the surface into the depths of culture and character. Though a man of his age and place, he could and did respond to Spain as a 19th-century romantic with a pronounced streak of intellect. He loved the Spanish dignity and passion, the hierarchical sense, the manners of the don and the do-a. And he was quite explicit about the political affinities he sensed between the American and European Souths. As he wrote on entering Spain for the second time,
Adieu to a civilization which reduces men to machines, which sacrifices half that is stalwart and individual in humanity to the false glitter of centralization, and to the luxurious enjoyments of a manufacturing, money age!
On his first trip to Europe, Pettigrew had learned that he could not enjoy the values of the English and the northern Germans. He instinctively was pulled to the south, where he became as besotted by Italy as many another has been. But then there was Spain, for which he felt a high degree of knowing identification. For a man of his background and cultural assumptions, his ease in relating to another world was remarkable, and so was his mastery of languages. Pettigrew was not unique in that regard, however, for the story of American attraction to the repudiated continent is old and varied. Even so, his degree of self-consciousness, his sense of himself as a Southerner, and his sense of himself and his heritage in historical perspective are notable achievements by a man of many talents. Pettigrew's sensibility is oddly modern in its development. He seems to have arrived at something like Henry Adams' position 40 years before that South-despising ironist did. And therefore, Wilson's life of Pettigrew is much more than a military tale. Rather, it is a valuable contribution to American intellectual history.
As Professor Wilson has said of Pettigrew's work at the very beginning of the Civil War,
Still, strangely, the zeal with which Pettigrew immersed himself in his pressing tasks did not at all preclude his customary ironic detachment, the hallmark of a good mind able to rise above its immediate circumstances.
Just so. The fact that this particular cavalier, lawyer, scholar, and scientist wore gray and was glad to do so says much about his own age, but also something about ours. Clyde Wilson's elegant performance is addressed not only to the shade of Johnston Pettigrew and the world that died not long after he did but to the consequence of that collapse and the continuing cultural calamity. Carolina Cavalier is an antidote for, or a rebuttal to, the contemporary propaganda that suffuses the airwaves and clots the presses. It is the best historical work I have seen in a long time and an invaluable statement about the Civil War, its meaning and character, its causes and issues, and its abiding significance. I missed this book upon the occasion of its first publication but can now only feel that I was lucky in that mischance. I have had the serendipitous pleasure of a delayed first reading, and, in that glow, I think I will be far from alone.
J.O. Tate is a professor of English at Dowling College on Long Island.
This review originally appeared in the December 2002 issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture
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Cipher of Roger Bacon
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Contents: Forerunner of Modern Science; Voynich Cipher Manuscript of Roger Bacon, a sketch of its history; Voynich Cipher Manuscript of Roger Bacon, sketch of its contents; Principles of Roger Bacon's Cipher; Following the Clues; Derivation of the Biliteral Alphabets; Script of the Shorthand Cipher; Rules for Deciphering the Texts; Interpretation of the Key; Annular Eclipse of 1290; Great Nebula of Andromeda; Comet of 1723; Cato and Fulvius; Oxford Story; Gunpowder Formula; Vatican Document; Paris Medical Text; Formula for Producing Metallic Copper; Abbreviated Word about the Green Lion; Tables of Values.
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A compulsively readable account of the most mysterious manuscript in the world, one that has stumped the world’s greatest scholars and codebreakers.
The Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious tome discovered in 1912 by the English book dealer Wilfrid Michael Voynich, has puzzled scholars for a century. A small six inches by nine inches, but over two hundred pages long, with odd illustrations of plants, astrological diagrams, and naked women, it is written in so indecipherable a language and contains so complicated a code that mathematicians, book collectors, linguists, and historians alike have yet to solve the mysteries contained within. However, in The Friar and the Cipher, the acclaimed bibliophiles and historians Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone describe, in fascinating detail, the theory that Roger Bacon, the noted thirteenth-century, pre-Copernican astronomer, was its author and that the perplexing alphabet was written in his hand. Along the way, they explain the many proposed solutions that scholars have put forth and the myriad attempts at labeling the manuscript's content, from Latin or Greek shorthand to Arabic numerals to ancient Ukrainian to a recipe for the elixir of life to good old-fashioned gibberish. As we journey across centuries, languages, and countries, we meet a cast of impassioned characters and case-crackers, including, of course, Bacon, whose own personal scientific contributions, Voynich author or not, were literally and figuratively astronomical.
The Friar and the Cipher is a wonderfully entertaining and historically wide-ranging book that is one part The Code Book, one part Possession, and one part The Da Vinci Code—and will appeal to bibliophiles and laypeople alike.
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Good read, misleading title.......2007-08-06
As most other reviewers have stated, the book title is misleading.
The buildup to Roger Bacon and the manuscript is the first 200 of the total of 300 pages. Then there is a rush to squeeze in the ending.
It would have been nice to have more details about current attempts to read the manuscript.
Otherwise, it is actually a very easy and enjoyable book to read.
The good, the bad and the misleading.......2007-02-19
Without a doubt, this book is the most difficult to rate of any I have reviewed so far. The book is advertised as a tale of Roger Bacon and the Voynich Manuscript, both fascinating topics. But as previous reviewers have noted, the authors frequently go off on tangents, presumably in an effort to provide added context. Some of these digressions are riveting; some are distracting. I skipped several pages and even a whole chapter without losing any of the storyline. More than once I found myself asking, "How does this relate to Roger Bacon or the Voynich Manuscript?" The authors do eventually tie everything back to one of those subjects, but seldom with an economy of words.
I appreciated the conversational style the authors used in telling the story. Their flippant tone, on the other hand, made me wince. Think Thomas Cahill-type narrative without the pleasant aftertaste.
Ulimately, what soured me on this book was the apparent ax the authors have to grind with the Catholic Church and the degree to which it infected their writing. On page 42, they write that scholasticism "matured into the most powerful tool for maintaining and perpetuating doctrine that the Church had ever seen." The scholastics "remained uninterested in uncovering new knowledge, only in cementing the unlikely but now solid bond between Aristotle's logic and the Bible's revelation." That's pure, unvarnished B.S. Please compare those statements with the following:
"It is difficult to arrive at a satisfactory definition of Scholasticism that would apply to all the thinkers to whom the label has been affixed. ... The Scholastics, by and large, were committed to the use of reason as an indispensable tool in theological and philosophical study, and to dialectic ... as the method of pursuing issues of intellectual interest." (Thomas E. Woods Jr., "How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, p. 58)
"What made it possible for Western civilization to develop science and the social sciences in a way that no other civilization had ever done before? The answer, I am convinced, lies in a pervasive and deep-seated inquiry that was a natural consequence of the emphasis on reason that began in the Middle Ages. ... It was quite natural for scholars ... to probe into subject areas that had not been explored before, as well as to discuss possibilities that had not previously been entertained." (Edward Grant, "God and Reason in the Middle Ages" p. 356)
The Goldstones argue passionately that Roger Bacon got hosed and history never gave him his due. That's probably true. But their cri de coeur glosses over the fact that, slight or no slight, Roger Bacon was a monk and therefore a committed adherent to Catholicism. Also noteworthy is that Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II is glorified in this book, which stands in stark contrast to his portrayal by at least one modern biographer. In short, if you'd like an at-times-gripping detective story/biography and an introduction to a plethora of historical luminaries, cherry pick from this book. If you are committed to learning the truth, get both sides and take "The Friar and The Cipher" with a bushel of salt.
Strange Book.......2006-12-31
The book is about a manuscript discovered in 1918. It is a fascinating manuscript written in a complicated cipher with eclectic illustrations in the margins. The most likely author of this manuscript is Roger Bacon. The authors then spend most of the book putting Roger Bacon in his cultural milieu and summarizing intellectual history in Western Europe until the 20th century. Don't get me wrong, they tell the story in a fun way, but they don't even mention the manuscript again until page 200. Then the authors detail a very tentative hypothesis of how the book ended up where it did. The authors can not even state with certainty whether this manuscript is Bacon's or not. They used words like "probably" or " most likely." I became bored. The authors tell an okay story, the story is well paced or even too fast, they obviously know history, but when it becomes apparent this is all conjecture, I lost interest. They simplify the history too much. They strain to make the scholasticism of Aquinas and the scientific method of the Bacons (Roger and and later Francis) the major conflict in the intellectual history of mankind. I didn't buy all their conclusions and commentary.
In other words, they cover far too much: too much history and too much philosophy. They did not spend enough time on the manuscript. I felt cheated. The title is very misleading.
Is this about philosophy or about a book?.......2006-03-29
Don't you hate it when a book description isn't completely accurate? While I wouldn't necessarily say that's true in the case of Lawrence & Nancy Goldstone's The Friar and the Cipher, it does come very close. Ostensibly, the book is about the Voynich Manuscript, a document that has never been deciphered and which many believe was written by the noted thinker Roger Bacon, who lived in the thirteenth century. There has been a lot of controversy about this manuscript and its possible authorship, with many people believing that there's no way that Roger Bacon could have written it, or that it must be a hoax. It appears to be in some sort of code with strange illustrations in the margins. And yes, the book does discuss the great debate about this, detailing the many attempts to decode it and the many theories about who might have written it. Was it all a hoax committed by a friend of John Dee, Queen Elizabeth's trusted advisor, back in the late sixteenth century?
Of course, the problem is that this debate begins on page 223 of the edition I have. The book runs just over 300 pages, which presents kind of a problem. The rest of the book is a history of Western thought and the constant struggle between science and religion in the Middle Ages, when the Catholic church was all-powerful. It gives a very detailed history of Roger Bacon, supposedly to give the background to the debate on the manuscript. It also details his philosophical adversaries, as well as demonstrating how Europe came out of the Dark Ages due to the rediscovery of some of Aristotle's works. In fact, the book goes all the way back to Aristotle himself, and his differences with Plato.
All of this is fascinating stuff, and if you're in the mood for a discourse on logical thought and its struggles to get through religious dogma, then this book is definitely for you. I know I enjoyed it immensely. I just wish it had been better advertised as such. It covered a lot of ground that I was slightly familiar with, yet for which I had no real details. The Saracen empire was stretching into Spain at this point, and many of its scholars were well aware of Aristotle and his ideas of Logic. In fact, many of these scholars faced their own persecution from conservative Imams and other Moslem leaders, as the Goldstones show us in this book. As Europeans began to push back against this invasion, parts of Spain were recaptured, and these Moslem studies of Aristotle began to spread over Europe.
The Gladstones do a really effective job in giving this history in a concise, yet detailed format. I never felt like they were glossing over anything and I found these sections extremely valuable. If you've studied Western philosophy or the history of the Dark Ages, than this may not be new to you, but I found it intriguing. The authors then give a short history of the Dominican and the Franciscan orders of the Church, and how opposed to each other they were. They give the story of Francis of Assissi and how the Franciscans were formed, as well as the Dominicans and their noted scholar, Thomas Aquinas, and they discuss the university system as it existed in Europe at the time. Then they begin to delve deeply into Roger Bacon's biography. That's when the focus of the book begins to shift. However, it doesn't move that far at first. They use the differences between Thomas' thought and Bacon's to highlight the differences between those using Aristotle's logic and those using Church dogma, and it's a very enlightening section of the book.
Finally, we get to the manuscript itself, and where it may have gone (as it disappears from history periodically). Unfortunately, this is where the book really begins to drag. We are given fairly detailed passages on cryptology as many twentieth-century cryptologists try to decode the manuscript. I found I was much more interested in the discussions on Western thought than I was in the decoding of the manuscript, especially after remembering that nobody has ever solved the riddle. Some of these stories are interesting, but I found my interest flagging as I read about what happened to these various people.
Which brings me to the ultimate problem with this book and how it was marketed (and even titled). The Friar and the Cipher is a wonderful book on Western philosophy. However, there's nothing really new in the book when it comes to the manuscript. It doesn't take sides in the controversy, only saying that it seems likely that Bacon did write it. They raise questions, but they don't really provide anything new to anybody who has any knowledge of the subject. The book seems to be a way to gather a bunch of different sources into one volume, sort of a "this is where we're at" kind of thing.
It also is almost a love letter to Roger Bacon. They ferociously defend him against any of his critics who claim he wasn't what his fans make him out to be. He has come in for a lot of criticism over the years, and the Goldstones bring it all up and knock it down. Who's right and who's wrong is not for me to judge, as this is my first exposure to Bacon. However, one positive aspect of this defense is that they do acknowledge that the criticism *could* be right, but that it's misplaced. Bacon may not have been the leading light his fans make him out to be, but it was his methods that made him special, regardless of the ideas themselves. And perhaps that could be a defense of the book as well. The Friar and the Cipher may not be as special as it could be regarding the Voynich manuscript, but the method of getting there is extremely well done.
David Roy
Middle Ages' Unsolved Literary Mystery..........2005-10-19
The 13th century was one of the most productive in the history of human knowledge. Instead of relying strictly on the word of the Bible, scholars translated Greek classics, the best minds theorized about the power of natural science by drawing hypothesis and testing them with experiments. We think of that time as composed of "knights in chain-mail hoods and crosses on their chests in tournaments and plodding through dark forests on their way to Jerusaleum or Camelot." It as a time of monks, saints, piety, barbarity and ignorance.
Travel on the European continent 'improved with the widening of roads to accomodate oxcarts after the Dark Ages,' the most significant technological advance in history. Oxford became a town in the 10th century when a wall was built as a defense and for protection of the inhabitants. In 1167, the small walled town in the rolling countryside became a favorite of Henry II. It became a university town when Henry forbade English students from crossing the Channel to attend school.
Roger Bacon went to school in 1228 at the Univesity of Paris in the City of Lights. "The Italians have the Papacy, the Germans had the Empire, and the French have the learning." Bacon's decision to learn all that was 'knowable' so he followed in Thomas la Becket's shoes to seek the source of knowledge available at that time. A difficult problem for Bacon was Aristotle's notion of the "eternity of time" -- he was unable to reconcile Aristotle to Christianity without corrupting the philosopher's words. Albert Mgnus would remain his enemy until the day he died, but it sas Albert's protege, Thomas Acquinas, and his rejection of "experimental science" which would bring about the ruin of Roger Bacon.
The photo section of Bacon's handwritten and illustrated in living color of his OPUS MAJUS shows his most detailed hypothesis of 'optical science.' Along with botany, optics was probably the most advanced science of the Middle Ages. Moral philosophy was the highest of the sciences, that to which the proper exercise of the other sciences led. It "teaches us to lay down the laws and obligations of life and to believe and approve so that man can act and live according to these laws."
He was a lucid and passionate writer, and many of his manuscripts have been translated from the Latin into English, the universal language of the twenty-first century. The ultimate value os his works was in approach and point of view. David Lindberg has recently published ROGER BACON'S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE: A CRITICAL EDITION OF DE MULTIPLICATIONE SPECIERUM AND DE SPECULIS COMBURENTIBUS.
Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone have collaborated on OUT OF THE FLAMES, USED AND RARE, SLIGHTLY CHIPPED, and WARMLY INSCRIBED. Lawrence wrote solo, RIGHTS and OFF-LINE while Nancy has written BAD BUSINESS and TRADING UP (for women).
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The Most Mysterious Manuscript: The Voynich "Roger Bacon" Cipher Manuscript
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The Voynich “Roger Bacon” manuscript secrets—presumably magical or scientific and possibly containing a formula for an Elixir of Life—continue to defy deciphering efforts after almost four centuries, as this amazing history shows.
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about the year 1586 by the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II, who had a keen interest in magic and science, the Voynich manuscript consists of some 200 pages, with many unusual anatomical, botanical, and astronomical illustrations. The work was thought to be that of Roger Bacon, the thirteenth-century English philosopher, who had a reputation for being a magician, and whom legend credited with discovery of an Elixir of Life.
The writing, presumably in cipher, defied decipherment by Rudolph’s scholars, and the manuscript passed in the eighteenth century from Prague to Rome, and in 1912 to America, when it was bought by Wilfrid Voynich, a rare-book dealer. In 1921, William R. Newbold claimed to have solved the cipher, but his claim was disputed by John M. Manly, who gave the manuscript the sobriquet “the most mysterious manuscript in the world.”
In the 1960s the manuscript was acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book Library, and Robert S. Brumbaugh, a philosopher at Yale who had served in military intelligence during World War II, became interested in it, and began what has turned out to be a decade of effort to unlock the secrets of the cipher. In the course of his investigations Brumbaugh brought together a collection of essays tracing the manuscript’s history, which form the basis of the present book.
Brumbaugh himself in 1972 identified the “alphabet” used in the cipher, and read plant and star labels, but the text has resisted application of the alphabet. Efforts to transcribe and decipher the manuscript continue, and this book is a contribution to the efforts to reveal the secrets of medieval science, philosophy, and linguistics still locked in “the world’s most mysterious manuscript.”
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Unlikely his solution is correct.......2001-03-30
The Voynich Manuscript is a mysterious late mediæval text, written in an unknown script in an unknown language or cypher. It reads as if written fluently, not by someone who was painfully calculating each next character, but by someone who understood what he was writing. It looks like a curious herbal or alchemical treatise, full of diagrams of unknown plants, unknown constellations, and elaborate networks of plumbing inhabited by plump, naked, crowned women. The text seems to contain all the redundancies expected in a natural language and then some. It can be traced back as far as the hands of Athanasius Kircher, the Jesuit polymath, who was but the first of many to have tried and failed to read the text.
For a time, this book was the best general overview of the history of the Voynich Manuscript. It still is a good one, though it has been superseded in that regard by Mary d'Imperio's -The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma.-
Brumbaugh proposes in this book a partial "solution" that yields texts like ILEXER ILUS YUS PURUS POURLY ILUY YJSUUS PURUS PLUS URICUS. These decipherments have the merit of seeming to read like the repetitious text of the manuscript itself. He interprets this text, though, as "The Elixir is a game, purely, purely a pure game; and European." Even if he has deciphered the script, no doubt you can probably think of other interpretations on your own.
His method of reading seems to involve first turning the script into Arabic numerals, reading those numerals as any of several possible letters in the Latin alphabet. He got this by forcing letters into the script based on his attempts to identify some of the plants in the diagrams, and then attempting to extract a method of reading the characters. His decypherments are occasionally tantalising, but if this is the actual text behind the symbols, there doesn't seem to be much point in further effort. The readings appear to be flawed by the polyvalence of the script he believes he sees.
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- Everything You Need to Know About Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Disorders, 2nd Edition
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With millions around the world infected-and millions more at risk-Lyme and other tick-related disorders are today's fastest-growing infectious diseases. And while there has been much progress in combating these illnesses, we are a long way from eliminating them. Early treatment is crucial-and there's no better way to get informed and be prepared to deal with these diseases than to read this book.
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Everything You Need to Know About Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Disorders, 2nd Edition.......2007-04-16
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Very interesting book to explore!!!
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Cocktails in Tahiti is a visually stunning, full color showpiece combining a playful yet sophisticated look at Tahiti's magnificent luxury resorts and their most delicious, flirtatious, and slightly decadent cocktails. Filled with unusual insights, folklore, and facts about Tahiti and her islands,
Cocktails in Tahiti has something to tempt and delight all tastes.
Over 50 sumptuous cocktail recipes blend exotic fruits, juices, and liquors providing a flavorful and vibrant palette from which to capture the fun and often elegant mood of these captivating islands. You'll learn the history of the legendary Mai Tai, Tahiti's most famous cocktail, and discover the secrets of the intriguing rums, vodkas, and distinctive liqueurs used in creating Tahiti's most celebrated libations.
A special section features the signature cocktail recipes from Tahiti's most outstanding luxury resorts along with spectacular photographs and overviews of these renowned hotels.
Whether served from a coconut or elegantly chilled in a martini glass of fine crystal, the flowering and colorful cocktails of Tahiti have an undeniable presence all their own. If you are dreaming of a future trip or reliving special memories from a past visit to these beautiful islands, this wonderful collection of delightful drink recipes, dazzling hotel photographs, and distinctive insights will put you in a tropical, tranquil mood as you sip your way to our magical paradise.
Al Keahi, Managing Director, Tahiti Tourism Bureau N.A:
A must have book of fun and facts for anyone who has visited or dreams of visiting Tahiti.
New Book Resources, October 2006:
We can't wait to try out the recipes and imagine that we are at one of the featured, dreamlike hotels.
Vincent Guerin, Director of Sales, Starwood Hotels & Resorts French Polynesia:
The finest collection of resort photographs and cocktail recipes from across Tahiti.
Customer Reviews:
What a fun and entertaining book!.......2007-08-05
Not only does this book have a wealth of information on a destination we long to travel to, but it offers a wide variety of fun and DELICIOUS drinks.
We love to entertain and it has been great having 'Cocktails in Tahiti' out at our parties...quite a conversation piece! Everyone loves the stunning photos of Tahiti, the scrumptious drinks, and the intriguing facts of the islands. Thank you!
Experience a whole new world of Cocktails!.......2007-04-28
Always looking for new and exciting cocktails to try, I purchased this book. Each page became more interesting, not only for the drinks presented but for the knowledge that Mr. Bondurant shares about Tahiti, it's culture, local accomodations, etc.
The photos are exceptional and each drink I have mixed has been better than the last. I have bought several as gifts for coworkers and friends. You won't be disappointed!
Cocktails from paradise at your fingertips.......2007-02-06
"Cocktails in Tahiti" is a must have for any lover of spirits with a tropical flair. The author has artfully put together a wonderful collection of cocktails, both old and new, from the scenic paradise of Tahiti. Colorful photographs and descriptions of each drink will have your mouth watering to imbibe several of these treats from the South Pacific. If you are looking for something new to bring some tropical flavor to your cocktail library, then you need this book!
This book will make you fall in love with Tahiti.......2006-12-18
I have always wanted to go to the Tahitian islands but have never had the opportunity. Now, after reading "Cocktails in Tahiti", I am planning a trip to Tahiti for next Summer. I originally thought "Cocktails in Tahiti" would give me some good ideas for entertaining, but soon found out it contained many intersting nuggets about the islands and their history. To sum it up, I am packed and ready to go to these beautiful islands.
If you've ever dreamed of a tropical vacation or just need to brighten up your winter, you should read this book.
Beautiful Book.......2006-12-09
I have never been to Tahiti, but after reading the fun, informative facts about Tahiti, seeing the beautiful pictures, and sampling some of the excellent cocktail recipes, I am ready to go!
Mr. Bondurant's love and knowledge of Tahiti come through clearly in the book, which is very well laid out. It provides enough information and explains things in such a way that an amateur can make delicious Tahitian cocktails as well as the most experienced bartender. The fun facts about Tahiti, along with summaries of the total hotels and the gorgeous pictures, makes this book a must have.
Until I can take my first trip to Tahiti, this book will help bring a little Tahiti to my home.
Book Description
Smithmark is proud to introduce this comprehensive, nostalgia-rich guide filled with over 100 authentic, timeless cocktail recipes, complete with the entertaining, informative history of each drink. The companion to Smithmark's successful Old-Time Brand-Name Cookbook, this volume also contains information on essential bar gear, gorgeous artwork and advertising posters of the era, and many fascinating cocktail facts worth knowing.
Bob Markel is an independent literary agent and book packager. He previously served as senior vice president and editor-in-chief at Grosset and Dunlap, and vice president and editor-in-chief at Macmillan. Susan Waggoner, author of Smithmark's The Rules for Cats, has developed and written fiction and nonfiction books for several major publishers.
Customer Reviews:
A collection of savory classics.......2007-01-07
If you like trying drinks that you're not likely to find in many bars, or are simply interested in the origin and original recipes for some wonderful but mostly forgotten cocktails, this book is a home run. These recipes are mostly from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, so you won't see much vodka, but rather many gin, bourbon, and whiskey drinks, along with some liqueurs you've probably never heard of.
I've given this book to at least 3 other people, it makes a wonderful gift for someone who enjoys cocktails and experimenting.
Excellent first book on classic cocktails.......2002-05-19
This book is fun to read, well illustrated and very entertaining. I find this book useful because you can use the book as a menu of drinks for your friends and guests. My guests leaf thru it and we talk about what we'd like to drink at the next party. It is fun to know little bits of history or trivia about the drinks, and hopefully some of the errors will be corrected in a future edition. I also own the Savoy Bartender's guide and several other drink books and I find there is not as much agreement as you would expect on the ingredients in many famous drinks, so I'm not too concerned about variations - you get to try the different recipes and see what you like. I've never seen a bartenders guide with the correct recipe for a singapore sling - the one from Raffle's Hotel where the drink was invented.
Cocktails are like a lost art form. If you've never had a Ramos Fizz, or a whiskey sour you will marvel at the wonderful tastes and fun ways people have invented for drinks.
Shaken Not Stirred.......2001-07-03
This colorful book contains not only fun recipes but dozens of original ads that are not only works of art but speak of the time period. A full-page ad for Seagram's 5 Crown blended whiskey features a crowned "Mr. Smoothness" character gardening. He's stepped on a rake that sends "Mr. Toughness" flying. "Mr. Toughness" bares an uncanny resemblance to Adolph Hitler. The ad reads "Lettuce beet the axis!"- Says the 5 Crowns.
There were some surprises and some disappointments when working through the recipes. I find that a well done "7&7" can be very tasty. I didn't know that it was considered a Highball. Another drink tried used fresh cream and maraschino liqueur. This turned out to be disgusting as the cream curdled on impact. I don't know if this was supposed to happen but it was quickly poured down the sink. After a bit of experimenting with measurements, I found the "Aviation" likened to a Sour and very good.
This is not the end-all and be-all of cocktail books. They list several sources in the bibliography should you thirst for more. I consulted a few of these and found a number of discrepancies. Some drinks in "Vintage Cocktails" used different alcohols; others were older than listed. If you desire accuracy, this could pose a problem.
If you are a cocktail drinker, you will find several new ones to try as well as original recipes for some of your favorites. If you're idea of a mixed drink is a "Lemon Drop Shooter", flip through this delightful book for a change of pace. This also makes a great coffee table book and conversation starter.
Very beautiful book, but ..........2000-09-03
This is a very beautiful book, but some of the drinks are much older than the authors think. If they had taken a look at "The Savoy Cocktail Book" (1930), listed in their bibliography, they would have found the "Rob Roy" before World War II. But the recipe even dates back before World War I. You can find it in "The Cocktail Book" 1902. "Between the Sheets" was born during and not after Prohibition. You'll find the recipe also in "The Savoy Cocktail Book". By the way: A "Between the Sheets" is mixed with light rum, not with gin. Tre recipe given in the book actually is a "Loud Speaker". The "Dubonnet Cocktail" was not born during Prohibition but predates it by at least 12 years. "Horse's Neck" started as a non-alcoholic drink - just a ginger ale with a spiral of lemon peel and ice ("Modern American Drinks", 1895). There was no applejack in the original "Stone Fence". You can find a recipe for a "Stone Fence" with whiskey (Bourbon) and sweet cider already 1862 in "The Bartender's Guide" by Jerry Thomas.
A peek into a bygone era.......2000-07-07
Before specialty beers and wines that had to breathe, Americans enjoyed "the occasional cocktail." These wonderful libations were a tribute to a people who knew how to take a few moments out to socialize with each other, without a TV on, perhaps in evening dress, or after work. Cocktails took some effort to prepare, and they were to be sipped over conversation. More than just drinks, cocktails were a reflection of the times, good and bad. This book isn't so much a collection of recipes, but a snapshot of those bygone days. And a fascinating read, as well. Some of the recipes conflict with those from other sources, but like discussions about wine vintages, the reader should leave plenty of leeway. Whether you enjoy cocktails or not, "Vintage Cocktails" is a cool look at an era we may never see again.
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Vintage Cocktails and Spirits
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New Bartender's Guide (1914)
Manufacturer: Ottenheimer, Baltimore, Maryland
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vintage 1914 bartender's manual, with toasts and limericks
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