The Pursuit of Oblivion
Subtitle: A Global History of Narcotics
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780393325454
First sentence: IN THE 1670s an English merchant seaman called Thomas Bowrey (1649?-1713) was plying his trade along the coast of Bengal together with other English sailors.