{"product_id":"9781501353277","title":"Gin","description":"Author: Shonna Milliken Humphrey\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781501353277\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 03 Dec 2020\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \u003cbr\u003eGin tastes like Christmas to some and rotten pine chips to others, but nearly everyone familiar with the spirit holds immediate gin nostalgia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough early medical textbooks treated it as a healing agent, early alchemists (as well as their critics) claimed gin's base was a path to immortality   and also Satan's tool. In more recent times, the gin trade consolidated the commercial and political power of nations and prompted a social campaign against women. Gin has been used successfully as a defense for murder; blamed for massive unrest in 18th-century England; and advertised for as an abortifacient. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom its harshest proto-gin distillation days to the current smooth craft models, gin plays a powerful cultural role in film, music, and literature   one that is arguably older, broader, and more complex than any other spirit. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46629792972958,"sku":"UBD-9781501353277","price":19.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781501353277.jpg?v=1774221151","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781501353277","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}