Pioneer of Inner Space
Subtitle: The Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater
Publisher: Autonomedia
Published: December 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781570270710
Subjects: Biography: general; Cosmology & the universe; Drug addiction & substance abuse; New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit; Biography/Autobiography; General; American Literary History; Biography; Drugs; New Age / Parapsychology
Description: Fritz Hugh Ludlow became the best-selling author of The Hasheesh Eater in the years before the Civil War. His best-seller related his visionary experiences with large, oral doses of hashish, along with his religious, philosophical and medical reflections on the altered states they produced. He became a celebrated figure in the Bohemian circles of New York, along with such friends as Walt Whitman. A short-story writer, a drama and music critic and a journalist, he mingled with the high society of New York while dissolutely wandering among the disreputable, hard-drinking literati.