Stimulating and richly coloured, PLANET PARTY is an erudite study of our love of celebration. In addition to providing an impression of what it feels like to be at each event, PLANET PARTY examines the history and philosophies behind them, exploring matters as diverse as ideal beauty, the Hindu concept of rebirth, and the origins of beer drinking. Its itinerary includes such famous events as the Munich Oktoberfest, Trinidad Carnival and the running of the bulls in Pamplona, and also lesser known, if equally exciting spectacles like Derbyshire's 1,000-a-side Shrovetide football match, and the Burning Man Project, a fire festival staged in a remote American desert. "On almost any given day of every year, at some point on the globe, people will be gathering together in celebration - to stage parades, to venerate their gods, to dress up in disguise, or to strip to their skins and abandon themselves to pleasure."Įssential reading for the traveling or armchair hedonist, PLANET PARTY is a tour of the world's greatest festivals - a multicultural voyage of celebration across the continents and through the seasons. "A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry" - Ecclesiastes 8:15 Drink investigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankind's love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt. We have been drinking as long as we have been human, and for better or worse, alcohol has shaped our civilization. Planet Party by Iain Gately - published July 2004 A spirited look at the history of alcohol, from the dawn of civilization to the modern day Alcohol is a fundamental part of Western culture.
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