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"Elegant and authoritative"--The Independent on Sunday
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Informative, lively, and impeccably researched, Andy Letcher's Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom is a unique and engaging study of this most extraordinary of psychedelic drugs.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0571227708
- ISBN 13 9780571227709
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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