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Opium by Martin Booth (1999, Paperback) 
Opium by Martin Booth (1999, Paperback)

 
Opium by Martin Booth (1999, Paperback)

Author: Martin Booth
Publisher: Griffin
Publication Date: 1999-06-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0312206674
ISBN-13: 9780312206673
Product ID: EPID574299
Description: This book traces the impact that opium has had on world culture and tells of the multifaceted nature of this powerful narcotic. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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Synopsis
This book traces the impact that opium has had on world culture and tells of the multifaceted nature of this powerful narcotic. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

Details
Publication Date:1999-06-01

Size
Length:381 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:14.4 oz

Publisher's Note
This full-length history of opium uncovers the multi-faceted nature of this remarkable narcotic and the bittersweet effects of a simple poppy with a deadly legacy.

Industry Reviews
"Booth offers a rich and definitive narrative on a major issue in a highly readable form."
Steinem

"Booth handles an inflammatory topic with admirable cool."
Steinem

"One especially good chapter focuses on opiate-addicted writers and artists....As his choice of epigraph suggests, Booth is wonderfully unshrill on a subject that turns many people into shrieking dogmatists. He understands the lure of the drugs he describes, though he does allow himself a concluding moral: "To every discovery mankind has ever made, from the lighting of the first fire to the splitting of the atom, there has been a good side and a bad side. Opium is no different....Heroin addiction, the legacy of opium which was probably the first medicinal substance used by man, is here to stay, taking its place alongside poverty, racism and war in the sorry catalogue of insoluble human problems."
Carson

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