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Item Details
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THE SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT PUB
LOOKING FOR THE MOON UNDER WATER |
| By: |
Paul Moody, Robin Turner |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1409112683 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781409112686 |
| Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
24 November, 2011 |
| Edition: |
Digital original |
| Description: |
Around Britain, clocking up hundreds of beer miles in search of the perfect pub. A passionate defence of English drinking culture; an elegy for the local on your street corner. |
| Synopsis: |
Inspired by George Orwell, Paul Moody and Robin Turner take a nostalgic road trip around Britain in search of the perfect pub. 'A deeply satisfying travelogue' Stuart MaconieIn 1946, George Orwell, a man fond of a pint, wrote about his favourite pub, The Moon Under Water, in his EVENING STANDARD column. But it didn't actually exist. It was Orwell's vision of a perfect pub. Today, Wetherspoons have fourteen Moon Under Waters, and the nation is awash with identikit, high-street lounge bars competing for a dwindling clientele.Paul Moody and Robin Turner's road trip around Britain, therefore, is not just a search for the perfect pub. It is a deeper investigation into what has happened to British pub culture, once the toast of the world. In fact, it is a search for a kind of life-force kindled by the British public, something the powers-that-be are forever trying to extinguish.Along the way, such luminaries as Pete Brown ('the King of Beer'), Tim Martin (Wetherspoon's boss), Iain Sinclair, James Dean Bradfield and Paul Kingsnorth are consulted - along with a host of micro-brewers, landlords, politicians, bloggers and barroom philosophers. What emerges is a picture of the country as seen through a pint glass, a vision that goes to the heart of what it means to be British. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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