Paul Bowles

Sheltering Sky

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A compelling and comprehensive history of opium, a drug that has both healed and harmed since civilization began.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House Sea
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 192g
• ISBN-13: 9780141181912
• ISBN-10: 0141181915
• Artikelnr.: 23519148

Autorenporträt

Born in New York in 1920, Paul Bowles is considered one of the most remarkable American authors of the twentieth century. He began his artistic career as a composer and travelled widely in Europe and North Africa, settling in Tangier with his novelist wife Jane in the 1940s. Bowles is often credited with being a literary inspiration to the Beat authors.

Inhaltsangabe

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o Section - i: List of Illustrations
o Section - ii: Maps
o Introduction - iii: Introduction
* Unit - 1: PART ONE: Ópion, afyun, opium
* Chapter - 1: The Ancient World
* Chapter - 2: The Islamic Golden Age to the Renaissance
* Chapter - 3: The Silver Triangle and the Creation of Hong Kong
* Unit - 2: PART TWO: In the Arms of Morpheus
* Chapter - 4: The Romantics Meet Modern Science
* Chapter - 5: The China Crisis
* Chapter - 6: The American Disease
* Unit - 3: PART THREE: Heroin
* Chapter - 7: A New Addiction, Prohibition and the Rise of the
Gangster
* Chapter - 8: From the Somme to Saigon
* Chapter - 9: Afghanistan
* Chapter - 10: Heroin Chic, HIV and Generation Oxy
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o Section - iv: Afterword
o Acknowledgements - v: Acknowledgements
o Section - vi: Notes
o Index - vii: Index