Opium

Martin Booth
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Eight pages of photographs accompany this striking text, which delves deeply into the history and often unexplored cultural impact of a narcotic whose use has spanned centuries and forms, from smoking dens in the 1800s to the heroin of today. 10,000 first printing.
Genres: HistoryNonfictionScienceMedicineMedicalAudiobookPoliticsMicrohistoryChinaResearch
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