Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium by Lucy Inglis

Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium

Lucy Inglis

464 pages 2018

7 editions

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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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 witho...

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