A Modern De Quincey - Autobiography of an Opium Addict

Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: H. R. Robinson, H. R./ Abbott Robinson, Herbert R. Robinson, Hr Robinson
• Publisher: Antique Collector's Club
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2004
• EAN: 9789745240384
• ISBN: 978-974-524-038-4
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Asian portraits
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries