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Author: Richard Rudgley
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint: Abacus
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.50cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780349111278
ISBN 10: 0349111278
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 22 July 1999
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Professional & Vocational
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
'Fascinating' LOADED '... tobacco, ground beetles, glue, coffee, Prozac and so on ... Rudgley concentrates with startling results, on the history of the use of such substances' GUARDIAN 'a enjoyable anthology of drugs, from opium and LSD to giraffe livers.' MARIE CLAIRE 'Fascinating' NEW SCIENTIST 'Engrossing and scholarly ... full of arcane and fascinating material' Hanif Kureishi, MAIL ON SUNDAY
Fascinating LOADED ... tobacco, ground beetles, glue, coffee, Prozac and so on ... Rudgley concentrates with startling results, on the history of the use of such substances GUARDIAN a enjoyable anthology of drugs, from opium and LSD to giraffe livers. MARIE CLAIRE A thorough and entertaining reference text NEW SCIENTIST Formidable ... Rudgley's curiosity, distilled concentration, inter-disciplinary connectiveness, deadpan humour, prodigious reading, magpie eclecticism and anecdotal ease are all massively appealing EVENING STANDARD This really is a fun read ... there are great little bits of information, such as the one about Eton schoolboys being flogged in the 17th century if they forgot to bring their tobacco pipes to school Will Self, NEW STATESMAN Will deeply satisfy the curious ... impressive Nicholas Lezard, MODERN REVIEW Fascinating ... Suddenly, clubland seems tame ESQUIRE Rare and unusual is an encyclopaedia that you can read from cover to cover without wanting to put it down ... Richard Rudgley's book is one of those rarities ... fascinating, funny, informative and provocative LITERARY REVIEW A gold-leaf reference book ATTITUDE A perfect psychonaut's guide to a strange galaxy ... a brilliant index to the weird and wonderful and a timely reminder that ours is not an unusually reckless age FRANK
Fascinating - LOADED ... tobacco, ground beetles, glue, coffee, Prozac and so on ... Rudgley concentrates with startling results, on the history of the use of such substances - GUARDIAN a enjoyable anthology of drugs, from opium and LSD to giraffe livers. - MARIE CLAIRE A thorough and entertaining reference text - NEW SCIENTIST Formidable ... Rudgley's curiosity, distilled concentration, inter-disciplinary connectiveness, deadpan humour, prodigious reading, magpie eclecticism and anecdotal ease are all massively appealing - EVENING STANDARD This really is a fun read ... there are great little bits of information, such as the one about Eton schoolboys being flogged in the 17th century if they forgot to bring their tobacco pipes to school - Will Self, NEW STATESMAN Will deeply satisfy the curious ... impressive - Nicholas Lezard, MODERN REVIEW Fascinating ... Suddenly, clubland seems tame - ESQUIRE
Author Information
Richard Rudgley has already established himself as an authority in the field of psychoactive substances with his award-winning and critically acclaimed book THE ALCHEMY OF CULTURE: INTOXICANTS IN SOCIETY. He is currently writing a book on shamanism and is a research anthropologist at the university of Oxford.
