The Taste Of Opium
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The Taste Of Opium
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Author : Thea Atkinson
language : en
Publisher: Thea Atkinson
Release Date : 2023-03-02
The Taste Of Opium written by Thea Atkinson and has been published by Thea Atkinson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-02 with Fiction categories.
Love may transcend time, but time can be a fickle mistress. Asher is a Victorian bachelor who is an incredible disappointment to his noble father. When news of Howard Carter's discoveries in Egypt hit the papers, Asher is driven to finally find a way to prove his worth and gain his father's as yet unattainable respect. After months of labor, he builds a time machine that can change everything. Except he can't get it working quite right. It keeps returning him to the same evening over and over every time he powers it up, a dinner party his father has negotiated as a means for him to woo the guest of honor. But as he continues to return to the same timeframe, he begins to realize that the woman he is meant to woo has a dark secret. And that might be more dangerous than traversing time and space. If you love stories with a touch of steampunk, set in early 1900s London, you will love getting swept away into another time and place.
Opium
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Author : Colin Falconer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Opium written by Colin Falconer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Electronic books categories.
How was he ever going to win her back? Wasn't she the one who asked him: 'Do you want to chase clouds forever?' Well, then he had to do some things he wasn't too proud of, so that they could live this diamond life, become 'un vrai monsieur', get some respect. Be a boss in his own right. Wasn't that what she wanted? One day I will make her love me again .' Saigon 1967. As Indochina explodes into a bloody war, Baptiste Crocé expands his father-in-laws' opium business. Now the Americans have a taste for white powder and Europe is demanding more and more. He could soon be rich beyond his wildest dreams. It would be perfect but for one thing. He wants his wife to love him again. While Mao's revolution spills over into Hong Kong, Douglas Ho, Red Pole of the Fei Leung triad establishes heroin factories inside the Burma jungles. The opium business is going big time. Soon the mafia arrive. But while Noelle Crocé dreams of the lover she left behind, his son returns to Indochina to fly in America's secret war in Laos. But his own affair with a New York journalist spills over into politics. Does he show her the secrets of Air Opium, or will Asia corrupt him as it corrupted his father and everyone who touches the opium trade? Air Opium is the second book in the 'Opium' saga, tracing the growth of the international heroin trade in Asia 1960-1969.
Air Opium
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Author : Colin Falconer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Air Opium written by Colin Falconer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
How was he ever going to win her back? Wasn't she the one who asked him: 'Do you want to chase clouds forever?' Well, then he had to do some things he wasn't too proud of, so that they could live this diamond life, become 'un vrai monsieur', get some respect. Be a boss in his own right. Wasn't that what she wanted? One day I will make her love me again .' Saigon 1967. As Indochina explodes into a bloody war, Baptiste Crocé expands his father-in-laws' opium business. Now the Americans have a taste for white powder and Europe is demanding more and more. He could soon be rich beyond his wildest dreams. It would be perfect but for one thing. He wants his wife to love him again. While Mao's revolution spills over into Hong Kong, Douglas Ho, Red Pole of the Fei Leung triad establishes heroin factories inside the Burma jungles. The opium business is going big time. Soon the mafia arrive. But while Noelle Crocé dreams of the lover she left behind, his son returns to Indochina to fly in America's secret war in Laos. But his own affair with a New York journalist spills over into politics. Does he show her the secrets of Air Opium, or will Asia corrupt him as it corrupted his father and everyone who touches the opium trade? Air Opium is the second book in the 'Opium' saga, tracing the growth of the international heroin trade in Asia 1960-1969.
Opium Fiend
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Author : Steven Martin
language : en
Publisher: Villard
Release Date : 2012-06-26
Opium Fiend written by Steven Martin and has been published by Villard this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 most seductive drugs, in this harrowing memoir of addiction and recovery. A natural-born collector with a nose for exotic adventure, San Diego–born Steven Martin followed his bliss to Southeast Asia, where he found work as a freelance journalist. While researching an article about the vanishing culture of opium smoking, he was inspired to begin collecting rare nineteenth-century opium-smoking equipment. Over time, he amassed a valuable assortment of exquisite pipes, antique lamps, and other opium-related accessories—and began putting it all to use by smoking an extremely potent form of the drug called chandu. But what started out as recreational use grew into a thirty-pipe-a-day habit that consumed Martin’s every waking hour, left him incapable of work, and exacted a frightful physical and financial toll. In passages that will send a chill up the spine of anyone who has ever lived in the shadow of substance abuse, Martin chronicles his efforts to control and then conquer his addiction—from quitting cold turkey to taking “the cure” at a Buddhist monastery in the Thai countryside. At once a powerful personal story and a fascinating historical survey, Opium Fiend brims with anecdotes and lore surrounding the drug that some have called the methamphetamine of the nineteenth-century. It recalls the heyday of opium smoking in the United States and Europe and takes us inside the befogged opium dens of China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. The drug’s beguiling effects are described in vivid detail—as are the excruciating pains of withdrawal—and there are intoxicating tales of pipes shared with an eclectic collection of opium aficionados, from Dutch dilettantes to hard-core addicts to world-weary foreign correspondents. A compelling tale of one man’s transformation from respected scholar to hapless drug slave, Opium Fiend puts us under opium’s spell alongside its protagonist, allowing contemporary readers to experience anew the insidious allure of a diabolical vice that the world has all but forgotten.
Narcotic Culture
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Author : Frank Dikötter
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Narcotic Culture written by Frank Dikötter and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with History categories.
'China was turned into a nation of opium addicts by the pernicious forces of imperialist trade.' This book systematically questions this assertion, showing that opium had few harmful effects on either health or longevity, that most smokers used it in mode
Opium Poppy Cultivation And Heroin Processing In Southeast Asia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Opium Poppy Cultivation And Heroin Processing In Southeast Asia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Heroin categories.
Tastes Of Paradise
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Author : Wolfgang Schivelbusch
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1993-06-29
Tastes Of Paradise written by Wolfgang Schivelbusch and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-06-29 with Social Science categories.
From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting smoking it, Schivelbusch looks at how the appetite for pleasure transformed the social structure of the Old World. Illustrations.
Opium For The Masses
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Author : Jim Hogshire
language : en
Publisher: Feral House
Release Date : 2010-08-01
Opium For The Masses written by Jim Hogshire and has been published by Feral House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-01 with Gardening categories.
A practical guide to growing and using poppies and other botanical wonders.
Drugs On Trial
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Author : Andreas-Holger Maehle
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-08-29
Drugs On Trial written by Andreas-Holger Maehle and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-29 with Medical categories.
This book describes the main issues of eighteenth-century pharmacology and therapeutics and provides detailed case studies of three key areas: lithontriptics (remedies against urinary stones), opium, and Peruvian bark (quinine).
The Lancet
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
The Lancet written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with categories.