"Who would have thought that Pipe-Line would one day be considered a classic of pipe literature," says the author Jörg Pannier with delight. "But that is no reason to rest on our laurels." On the contrary: The ambition to be contemporary required a complete overhaul of the beloved pipe book after about a decade – and there is plenty of new information to share about pipe smoking. As before, Pipe-Line: The New Book on Pipes remains reliable, lively, and entertaining, guaranteed free from pipe jargon, fact-spouting, and anecdote-spinning. Here, clear language is used, and the immediate applicability of each topic to everyday life is taken into account. This volume is not a compendium, a lavish book, or a breviary, but a concise invitation to "pipe smoking without the boring bits." Pannier: "That’s what both the new and the old book stand for. Promise!".