- Psychotropic drugs, Opium, Mescaline, Caffeine
Three essays, each oriented around a psychotropic drug: poppy growing, coffee drinking and mescaline healing.
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Contemporary, spare, contemplative and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Michael Pollan
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 274
- Publisher
- Random House Large Print, Penguin Press, Penguin Audio
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593296905
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“Of all the many things human rely on plants for—sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber—surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to simulate or calm, to fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience.”
Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He writes about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment.
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