Now revised, updated, and with new recipes, And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of this most American of liquors From the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of Havana bar hoppers, spirits and cocktail columnist Wayne Curtis offers a

Books about All the Year Round

This fascinating collection of vintage songs contains the words and music to over 100 Navy, armed forces, patriotic, holiday and seasonal, international folk, and popular songs. The selections include: Anchors Aweigh, Navy Victory March, Song of the Seabees, Waves of the Navy, Star Spangled Banner, Yankee Doodle, Dixie, Marine's Hymn,

Mr. Townsend's fellow countrymen must feel themselves to be put under a beautiful obligation to him by his work entitled Kentucky in American Letters. He has thus fenced off for the lovers of New World literature a well watered bluegrass pasture of prose and verse, which they may enter and

A rare collection of 195 barroom story-poems including over 150 that have not been published in over 100 years. Most were recited by minstrels who traveled the old West and performed them on kerosine lit tavern stages. These poems were gathered from all over the world. No profanity.