Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 1
The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean
Published on 26. November 2017
Book
Hardback
378 pages
978-0-9966394-3-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Hasheesh Eater is the first, and possible still the best, visionary book of the entheogenic drug experience in American literature. Ludlow takes us from Heaven to Hades and back though breathtakingly beautiful and soulful prose. This Logosophia edition is re-edited and formatted from the 1857 original with a new introduction.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
738 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9966394-3-9 (9780996639439)
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Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870) was an American writer of travelogues, short stories, novels, art criticism, science and drug literature related to hashish and opium cures. He is mostly known for The Hasheesh Eater and Across the Continent, his description of and Overland Stage journey with the painter Albert Bierstadt. HIs friends and acquaintances ranged from Mark Twain to Brigham Young to Walt Whitman, and he was an integral part of the creation of the Bohemian scene in New York City.