Moonshine, Monster Catfish, And Other Southern Conforts (Broché)

Burkhard Bilger's exploration of the soul of the American South is a glorious, wonderfully funny and movingly nostalgic journey through its peculiarities, from the eating of squirrel brains in Kentucky, frog-ranching in Georgia and coon-hunting all over, to the Tennessee sport of rolleyholing, the most peculiar game of marbles you have ever heard of. In the eccentric American tradition of Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent, both touching and hilarious, this is quite simply a wonderful piece of writing.