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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Inglis, Lucy, author.     Subjects     Opium trade -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Inglis, Lucy, author.       by title:      Milk of paradise : a...         MARC Display

Milk of paradise : a history of opium / Lucy Inglis. by Inglis, Lucy, author. New York : Pegasus Books, 2019. Subjects Opium trade -- History. ISBN:  9781643130552 (hardcover) : 1643130552 (hardcover) Description:  xxiv, 440 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm Edition:  First Pegasus Books cloth edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  An intelligent and authoritative history of opium--a drug that has both healed and harmed since the beginning of civilization. Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the "Milk of Paradise" for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain--and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport, and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand. No other substance in the world is as simple to produce or as profitable. It is the basis of a gargantuan industry built upon a shady underworld, but ultimately it is an agricultural product that lives many lives before it reaches the branded blister packet, the intravenous drip, or the scorched and filthy spoon. Many of us will end our lives dependent on it. In Milk of Paradise, acclaimed cultural historian Lucy Inglis takes readers on an epic journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and Afghanistan, from Sanskrit to pop, from poppy tears to smack, from morphine to today's synthetic opiates. It is a tale of addiction, trade, crime, sex, war, literature, medicine, and, above all, money. And, as this ambitious, wide-ranging, and compelling account vividly shows, the history of opium is our history and it speaks to us of who we are.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 362.29309 In Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.29309 In Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.29309 In Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.29309 In Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.29309 In Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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