Isbn: 9780553078688 - food of the gods: the search for the original tree of knowledge (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. In green boards with black cloth to spine and copper foil to type. Light dings to bottom corners. A little fading/rubbing to spine ends and small moisture spot to top of spine cloth at rear board. Tiny marks to page ends. Name and extensive notes in pen to front endpapers and top halves of ffep verso and rear endpapers. Underlining and marks alonside text throughout book in pen. Jacket is unclipped ($21.50) with pen marks to rear flap and a few other stray marks, some edgewear with some nicks/lifting to lamination to top edge around head of spine, and small moisture stain to top inside of rear flap. 2nd Printing. …

Hard cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 311 p. Audience: General/trade. Good in good dust jacket. Previous owner's lengthy inscription on ffep, else appears unmarked. Several page corners have been folded.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 23 cm, 312 pages, NF in VG+ DW in mylar cover. Ethnobotanist Terence Mckenna, hailed by Tom Robbins as "the most important-and most entertaining-visionary scholar in America," explores humanity's symbiotic relationship with spirits, tobacco, marijuana, opium, psilocybin, and more, from prehistoric times to today. Why, as a species, are humans so fascinated by altered states of consciousness? Can altered states reveal something to us about our origins and our place in nature? In Food of the Gods, Terence McKenna's research on man's ancient relationship with chemicals opens a doorway to the divine, and perhaps a solution for saving our troubled world. McKenna provides a revisionist look at the historical role of drugs in the East and the West, from ancient spice, sugar, and rum trades to marijuana, cocaine, synthetics, and even television-illustrating the human desire for the "food of the gods" and the powerful potential to replace abuse of illegal drugs with a shamanic understanding, insistence on community, reverence for nature, and increased self-awareness.…

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