{"id":46692,"date":"2024-01-05T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T12:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/drinking-with-the-valkyries-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:02:50","slug":"drinking-with-the-valkyries-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/drinking-with-the-valkyries-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking with the Valkyries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&ldquo;A new sort of literary gumption arrived on the scene with Andrew Jefford; a powerful blend of science and poetry. Here is a writer who does his interviews, delves deep into motives and methods, and then lets fly with whatever imagery he finds winging by.&rdquo;<\/em> <strong>Hugh Johnson<\/strong> (2019)<\/p>\n<p>Poet, philosopher, author, radio presenter and journalist, Andrew Jefford lives in France; but buried deep in one wine country what does he miss most about the rest? 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