The Last Opium Den
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; Bloomsbury
Published: January 5, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9781582342276
Subjects: Travel - General; Tosches, Nick; Travel; Essays & Travelogues; Journeys; Travel / Adventure; Opium; General; Tosches, Nick.
First sentence: YOU SEE, I needed to go to hell.
Description: "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, Tosches's trip becomes a deeper meditation on what true fulfillment is and why no one bothers to look for it any more."--BOOK JACKET.