Asked to create a series of illustrations on whisky and its ways, Ralph Steadman embraced the subject with enthusiasm. Enthralled by an industry steeped in rich folklore and mysterious tales as dark as peat, and by the magical liquid that it produces, he embarked on the whisky trail. Travelling the length and breadth of Scotland and its islands he visited distilleries and explored the landscapes on which their whisky depends; he talked to the characters behind them - to the workers and distillers whose nose for the nuances of every inhalation brings them "as near as a human being can get to emulating the homing instinct of a salmon swimming up river to breed". Within the pages of this book, informed and irreverent at the same time, the reader can discover the essence of the truly great whiskies and also less familiar pleasures in the unexpected finds Steadman makes along the way.
- ISBN10 0091820243
- ISBN13 9780091820244
- Publish Date 25 April 1996 (first published 20 October 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 January 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Ebury Publishing
- Imprint Ebury Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English