Pursuit of Oblivion
Subtitle: A Global History of Narcotics
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Published: July 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780756781392
Subjects: History: World; Reference; History
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.