The Pipe Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide (Companion)
Customer Reviews
Rated 5 starsgreat gift for pipe smokers
this book was a gift for a long time pipe smoker and he was delighted with it
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Rated 5 starsBest source, so far!
I have a number of pipe books and this is by far the best I have read. It has info on how each company prepares the briar as well as how they make their pipes. If I were to have to keep but one pipe book, this is the one I would choose!
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Rated 4 starsWhat?s there is great, but I wanted even more.
This is an informative and beautifully printed and illustrated book. Looking at the beautiful glossy photographs and reading the distinctive text is a delight, particularly when it is accompanied by smoking one of the fine pipes made by the carver you're reading about. However, I did wish that the book were comprehensive enough to fully live up to its subtitle of "A Connoisseur's Guide." I realize that to have included more...
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Rated 4 starsMy First Review
I found this book to be a rather nice departure from the "standard" pipe tome. There was not the prerequisite history of tobacco and Sir Walter Raleigh's life story.Instead, there is an enjoyable, concise background section along with a chapter on "how to smoke a pipe" that was equally pointed and factual. The book seemed nicely non-biased and simply presented known facts about a given carver or company along with clear...
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