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Opium, potent and mythical, holds an evocative place in the drug pantheon with its connotations of mystery, langour and sinister beauty. This is the first illustrated history of opium culture. Opium's seductive muse has fueled the vision of artists, writers and poets, including Cocteau, Baudelaire and Wilde. Brought to life by an amazing array of archival photographs, rare engravings, movie stills and lurid pulp novel and magazine covers.
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Illustrated with rare engravings, this lavish book charts the drug's passage from China through the Limehouse Docks... -- Bizarre, February 2002
Opium held a special attraction to those on the fringes of society... the book is a pleasure to behold -- 'Sunday Telegraph', November 2000
The drug with the best brand name of all... full of beautiful historical images... -- 'Time Out', November 2000
This is a little jewel of a book, with a sumptuous embossed cover and a wealth of high-quality colour reproductions -- 'Fortean Times', Feb 2002
This is a terrifically glamorous short history of opium culture, all exquisitely illustrated in lush colour plates. -- 'The Times', November 2000
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Opium held a special attraction to those on the fringes of society... the book is a pleasure to behold -- 'Sunday Telegraph', November 2000
The drug with the best brand name of all... full of beautiful historical images... -- 'Time Out', November 2000
This is a little jewel of a book, with a sumptuous embossed cover and a wealth of high-quality colour reproductions -- 'Fortean Times', Feb 2002
This is a terrifically glamorous short history of opium culture, all exquisitely illustrated in lush colour plates. -- 'The Times', November 2000
Barbara Hodgson is a book designer and writer and a founding partner at Byzantium Books in Vancouver, B.C. She is the author of "No Place for a Lady" among other nonfiction books. She has also published two novels, "The Sensualist" and "The Tattooed Map."
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- PublisherSouvenir Press Ltd
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0285636278
- ISBN 13 9780285636279
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages152
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