The Last Opium Den

Name: The Last Opium Den
Brand: Bloomsbury
SKU: ByrdShop_158234227X
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hardcover – January 5, 2002

by Tosches, Nick

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ISBN-13: 9781582342276 ISBN-10: 158234227X

Publisher

Bloomsbury

Binding

hardcover

Published

January 5, 2002

Weight

0.3 lbs

Dimensions

16.40×1.10×11.20 cm

About this book

The Last Opium Den by Tosches, Nick. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781582342276.

Nick Tosches trades civilization and its discontents for the possibility of one moment of pure bliss. Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, Nick Tosches goes in search of something everyone tells him no longer exists: an opium den. From Europe to Hong Kong to Thailand to Cambodia, he hunts the Big Smoke, bewildered by its elusiveness and, despite the meaning it continues to evoke as a cultural touchstone, its alleged extinction. Weaving his spiritual and hallucinogenic quests together with inimitable, razor-sharp prose, Toschess trip becomes a deeper meditation on what true fulfillment is and why no one bothers to look for it any more.