Length1h 37m
About this audiobook
Opium, once used for ritual purposes, is a substance which dulls pain and offers access to an artificial world, and has long been idealized by artists and markets. Baudelaire, Picasso, and Dickens were all inspired to create by the blue clouds of smoke. Known as either a sacred drug or the worst of poisons, opium rapidly became popular in Great Britain and a source of commerce with Imperial China. This illustrated work presents the history and quasi-religious rites of opium's use.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Other
Length1 hr 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 12, 2014
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Author: Donald Wigal
2China by the Dutch.
3Second Opium War.
4I. Turning On: Introduction
5Male Figure Holding a Poppy Plant
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6The ‘Glorification’ of an Opium Flower
7ships during the War of 1812.
8physicians and hedonists throughout history? It
916th century Watercolour Theodorus Clutius Collection
10Red Horned Poppy (Glaucium corniculatum)
11member of the poppy family, albeit at first glance
12Obviously some basic facts and an appreciation
13the immature fruits of the Oriental poppy.
14Men’s Chinese fan
15that family, several with many varieties. Most
16Only a few of the many species of poppy
17useful of some twenty natural alkaloids of
18Middle of the 19th century 50 x 35 cm
19Opium, Compassion, the Good Life, and the Seed of Evil
20morphine and a syringe, with directions on how
21digestive secretions. The liquid form also
22Date unknown
23equivalent of the opium and alcohol mixture
24View of a Den Full of Drug Addicts
25and later the consumption of alcohol during
26reminiscent of the police in the film Casablanca
27Discovering Opium: Hippocrates Was Hip
28Dates unknown Silver dross, average height: 4.5 cm
29During EuropeÊs great Black Plague, drinking
30Date unknown Silver, 4.9 cm
31following century.
32Follow the Money: The Opium Wars
33a serious imbalance of trade as Chinese
34Date unknown Silver, 5.8 cm
35important port of Hong Kong to the British.
36Opium, still
37After the Opium Wars, Western missionaries
38Opium Smoker Lost in His Dreams
39In 1900, a group of 40,000 militant Chinese
40ÂThe Righteousness and Harmony
41En-lai told President Gamal Abdel Nasser of
42A Man and Woman Smoking in a Luxury Opium House
43attention with their destruction of statues of
44II. Turning On: Ritual and Practice
45Inhaling or Shooting Up: Poppy Nose Best
46Date unknown Silver, 11.3 x 22.8 cm
47distance from the flame.
48Location for Drying the Opium
49drug-taking behavior. Here the famous saying of
50Needle holders
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