Length35m
About this audiobook
For generations now, it has been possible to separate cigar-lovers into two major categories: those who prefer Havanas, and those who don't. It is a difference that can be as crucial to those involved as, say, the difference between full-bodied red wine and sweet white. Certainly, to anyone who enjoys proper tobacco, lighting up a Havana cigar is the first step towards utter hedonism. With wit and skill, Philippe Mesmer makes a forthrightly chauvinistic comparison between the attractions of women, of spiritous liquors and of the Havana cigar. Plentiful illustrations include old and rare scenic cigar-bands, some with images of the island of Cuba. You might well say that this is a book seeking to find the path to those forms of Paradise that last no longer than an excellent cigar.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 27, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
8Making the cut
2Introduction
9A touch of flame
3Beauty in the eye of the beholder
10A matter of taste: Going solo
4Pleasure for the eyes
11Combined tastes
5The Scent of Legends
12Epilogue
Show all chaptersShow less
6The deft touch
13The Art of Cigar Bands
7Tactile pleasures
More from Philippe Mesmer
L'art du VentPhilippe Mesmer1h 31m$8 · $0.00
HavannafarbenPhilippe Mesmer40m$8 · $0.00
L'art de la Bague de CigarePhilippe Mesmer1h 33m$16 · $0.00
Couleur HavanePhilippe Mesmer40m$8 · $0.00
The Art of Cigar BandsPhilippe Mesmer1h 54m$16 · $0.00
Die geheime Sprache der FächerPhilippe Mesmer1h 31m4.4 (11)$8 · $0.00
Fan TalesPhilippe Mesmer1h 20m$8 · $0.00
Die Welt der ZigarrenbauchbindePhilippe Mesmer1h 42m$16 · $0.00
A Brief History of IntelligenceMax S. Bennett12h 18m4.6 (6.6K)$29 · $0.00
Ghosts of HiroshimaCharles Pellegrino8h 59m4.5 (877)$23
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m4.7 (351)$20 · $0.00
RevolutionariesSanjeev Sanyal11h 23m4.6 (2.6K)$29 · $0.00
We Crossed a Bridge and It TrembledWendy Pearlman6h4.6 (5.2K)$24 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m4.6 (2.6K)$8 · $0.00
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m4.6 (16.7K)$26 · $0.00
Lily's PromiseLily Ebert, Dov Forman8h 54m4.6 (16.1K)$29 · $0.00
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m4.6 (6.5K)$29 · $0.00
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m4.6 (927)$29 · $0.00
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and BeyondJohn Lyons12h 37m4.6 (1.4K)$33 · $0.00
BeyondStephen Walker15h 39m4.6 (3.2K)$33 · $0.00
Kings and PawnsHoward Bryant10h 9m4.6 (678)$29 · $0.00
No EscapeNury Turkel9h 30m4.6 (809)$28 · $0.00
Jubal Stone: U.S. Marshal: Blood Trail To Hell: A Western Adventure NovelCasey Nash3h 42m4.6 (3.2K)$18 · $0.00
Fall and RiseMitchell Zuckoff17h 23m4.6 (9.8K)$40 · $0.00
The SurvivorJosef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin9h 22m4.6 (2.5K)$29 · $0.00
Always FaithfulThomas Schueman, Zainullah Zaki12h 12m4.6 (977)$29 · $0.00
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 (Annotated)Alexis de Tocqueville17h 25m4.6 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
All the Gallant MenDonald Stratton, Ken Gire5h 55m4.6 (11.8K)$24 · $0.00
You may also like
Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Annotated)Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth22h 26m4.1 (17.7K)$2 · $0.00
Collected Short StoriesVirginia Woolf5h 47m4.1 (7.3K)$2.30
The Old WaysRobert Macfarlane11h 23m4.2 (17.1K)$20
Henri Matisse Jazz. Drawing with ScissorsHenri Matisse Jazz28m4.5 (1.6K)$16 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence (Annotated)Allan Cunningham38h 16m4.4 (403)$2 · $0.00
On Being IllVirginia Woolf28m4.0 (3.2K)$1 · $0.00
Limbo, and Other Essays; To which is now added Ariadne in MantuaVernon Lee6h 2m4.0 (74)$1 · $0.00
The Philosophy of Giambattista VicoBenedetto Croce12h 28m4.2 (42)$2 · $0.00
The Book of the NativeCharles G. D. Sir Roberts2h 14m$2 · $0.00
Through the Year with Famous AuthorsMabel Patterson3h 22m$2 · $0.00
The Philosophy of Giambattista VicoBenedetto Croce12h 26m4.2 (19)$2 · $0.00
The Beginnings of PoetryFrancis Barton Gummere20h 30m$2 · $0.00
Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and WhittierVarious8h 53m$1 · $0.00
Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of SmellsDaniel McKenzie4h 11m$2 · $0.00
Herder's conception of "das Volk"Georgiana Rose Simpson3h 24m$1 · $0.00
The Ontario High School ReaderAletta E. Marty7h 53m$2 · $0.00
History of BeastsAnonymous8m$2 · $0.00
Ariosto, Shakespeare and CorneilleBenedetto Croce7h 30m3.4 (13)$1 · $0.00
Contemporary Belgian PoetryVarious3h 42m$2 · $0.00
Birds, Beasts and FlowersD. H. Lawrence2h 56m$2.30