{"product_id":"9781782273158","title":"Through a Glass Lightly: Confession of a Reluctant Water Drinker","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe love of drinking was well-developed in the nineteenth-century Englishman. With chapters on port, claret, sherry, champagne, Burgundy, Madeira, wine cellars, glasses and butlers, \u003ci\u003eThrough a Glass Lightly\u003c\/i\u003e is a love letter to wine and everything that came with it. But the passionate tale has a sorry ending: in the final two chapters, the author develops gout and has to become a teetotaller in order to be able to take out life insurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe books in \"Found on the Shelves\" have been chosen to give a fascinating insight into the treasures that can be found while browsing in The London Library. Now celebrating its 175th anniversary, with over seventeen miles of shelving and more than a million books, The London Library has become an unrivalled archive of the modes, manners and thoughts of each generation which has helped to form it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom essays on dieting in the 1860s to instructions for gentlewomen on trout-fishing, from advice on the ill health caused by the \"modern\" craze of bicycling to travelogues from Norway, they are as readable and relevant today as they were more than a century ago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steerforth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050008559856,"sku":"9781782273158","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781782273158_p0.jpg?v=1763719611","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781782273158","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}