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Opium
Reality's Dark Dream
Rating :
rating
Author(s) :
Thomas Dormandy
Pages :
366
Pub Date :
2012
Edition(s) at Erowid :
2012(hb,1st ed,fine/fine)
Publisher :
Yale University Press
ISBN :
9780300175325
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"Thomas Dormandy has tackled the total history of opium and its products: their production, use and misuse, throughout human history. His narrativeis gracefully presented, and his wit, wisdom and irony shine through in equal measure."
-- William Bynum, author of The History of Meidcine: A Very Short Introduction

"Thomas Dormandy's shrewd eye picks out rich textures and details from a well-trodden field."
-- Marek Kohn, author of Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Underground