Copyright © 2013 by Lawrence Osborne
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Portions of this work were previously published in different form as “Drinking in Islamabad” in Playboy (July 2010); and as “Getting a Drink in a Civil War” in Harper’s (March 2011).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Osborne, Lawrence, 1958–
The wet and the dry : a drinker’s jouney / Lawrence Osborne.
p. cm.
1. Drinking customs—Cross-cultural studies. 2. Drinking of alcoholic beverages—Cross-cultural studies. 3. Temperance—
Cross-cultural studies. I. Title.
GT2884.O73 2012
394.1′2—dc23 2012038224
eISBN: 978-0-7704-3689-6
Jacket design by Ben Wiseman
Jacket photograph: (bottle) Armin Zogbaum
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