Ned Halley is the author of a number of children's books. He has contributed to such bestsellers as How To Do Just About Anything, and How Is It Done? A former director of the US publisher Rodale Press, Ned now writes from his home in Somerset, England.
This work offers answers to many questions on the arcane language of alcohol. It provides information intended to help the reader to decipher the labels of all kinds of beers, wines and spirits from around the world. It also contains recipes for cocktails, and portraits of wine nations and regions.
This New Albion Press edition contains all ten "centuries," or groups of 100 quatrains, that make up the Prophecies, is illustrated with contemporary paintings and woodcuts, as well as later illustrations, and includes Nostradamus' letters to his son César and to Henri II King of France.