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A Modern De Quincey
Autobiography of an Opium Addict
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Artikel-Nr:
9789745240384
Veröffentl:
2019
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.10.2019
Seiten:
142
Autor:
Herbert R. Robinson
Gewicht:
194 g
Format:
210x148x8 mm
Serie:
Asian Portraits
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Captain Robinson, completing a posting as a young British administrator in remote northern Burma, returned to Mandalay in 1923 to await a new assignment. One evening, Robinson and two friends came upon an opium den. While his friends called it a night, Robinson stayed on to sample the forbidden pleasures within-a decision that was to alter his life forever. Thus commences an incredible, autobiographical account of the seduction of a naive young romantic by the temptations of the East, and of his eventual narrow escape from death. First published in 1942, the book has become a sought-after rarity among British colonial accounts, now republished with a new foreword by Gerry Abbott.