Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

McKenna, Terence

ISBN 10: 0553078682 / ISBN 13: 9780553078688

Published by Bantam Books, New York, NY, 1992

About this Item

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 311 p. Audience: General/trade. Good in good dust jacket. Previous owner's lengthy inscription on ffep, else appears unmarked. Several page corners have been folded.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0016741

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
• Publisher: Bantam Books, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553078682
• ISBN 13: 9780553078688
• Binding: Hard cover

About this title

Synopsis

An exploration of humans' symbiotic relationships with plants and chemicals presents information on prehistoric partnership societies, the roles of spices and spirits in the rise of dominator societies; and the politics of tobacco, tea, coffee, opium, and alcohol. 17,500 first printing.

Review

"Deserves to be the modern classic on mind-altering drugs and hallucinogens."--The Washington Post

"Terence McKenna is the most important--and most entertaining--visionary scholar in America."--Tom Robbins

"The culture's foremost spokesperson for the psychedelic experience . . . Those who know and enjoy Joseph Campbell's work will almost certainly appreciate McKenna."--L.A. Weekly

"An eloquent proposal for recovering something vital--a sense of the sacred, the transcendent, the Absolute--before it's too late."--Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Meaning & Medicine, Recovering the Soul, and Space, Time & Machine