Whiskyopolis: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Campbeltown's Whisky Industry by David Stirk

About the Book:

Imagine a small town that once boasted a distillery for every few hundred of the local population. A quaint burgh at the end of a long and remote peninsula generating more duty per capital that anywhere else in the British Empire.

Then consider all hit a few of these distilleries disappearing in less than a decade. How did Campbeltown become known as 'Whiskyopolis'? What happened to it's once mighty whisky industry?

More Details:

This book explores the phenomenon that was, and is, Campbeltown Whisky from its Victorian heydey to its collapse and resurgence.