Book description
'A Sense of Place blends pin-sharp writing with evocative photography in a book to savour and treasure.' - Ian Rankin
'Mr. Broom, who was born in Glasgow and has been writing about spirits for decades, is the perfect author for this beautiful, evocative book. He knows the whisky territory intimately…
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Not just another whisky-tasting book, A Sense of Place is an enlightening travelogue through Scotland’s picturesque whisky regions, exploring both old and new distilleries, their past and more importantly and uniquely, their present and future.
Investigating from the ground up, Dave Broom takes you on this journey with him as the third wheel behind him and the superb photographer, Christina Kernohan.
Reporting on the expedition as a welcoming diary, it is simultaneously warm and informative with wide-ranging topics covering the archaeology of the Orkney Islands, the role of peat through time and even touching on the politics of the 18th…
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