NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A renowned authority on the secret world of opium recounts his descent into ruinous obsession with one of the world’s oldest and mos

An authority on opium paraphernalia traces the history of opium use while recounting his descent into addiction, describing how his experiments while researchin

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

Explores an aspect of opium that has largely been ignored--the art and accoutrements associated with opium smoking that reached a pinnacle in nineteenth-century