Opium: Uncovering the Politics of the Poppy

by Pierre-ArnaudChouvy (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $53.49

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $52.51

  Bitter, brownish and sticky, opium - the sap of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum - has been cultivated from the earliest of times. This book presents an account of the illicit production and trade of opium across the centuries.