| Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 5: Opium, the Arts, and America Contributor(s): Ludlow, Fitz Hugh (Author), Dulchinos, Donald P. (Editor), Crimi, Stephen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0996639470 ISBN-13: 9780996639477 Publisher: Logosophia OUR PRICE: $46.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Body, Mind & Spirit | Entheogens & Visionary Substances - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 818.309 |
| LCCN: 2020276066 |
| Physical Information: 2.06" H x 6" W x 9" (3.08 lbs) 854 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Topical - New Age - Topical - Family - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Literary Nonfiction. Art. Fitz Hugh Ludlow's non-fction essays, travelogues and criticism ranged widely in subject matter. His sketches of Florida depict it months before the Civil War, his theatre and musical criticism highlight early stars of the New York stage, and he later returned to the subject of drugs, as both a student and a sufferer of the opium habit. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ludlow, Fitz Hugh: - 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.Dulchinos, Donald P.: - Donald P. Dulchinos is the author of Pioneer of Inner Space: The Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Forbidden Sacraments: The Survival of Shamanism in Western Civilization, and Neurosphere: The Convergence of Evolution, Group Mind, and the Internet. He has found time between these projects for a career in the information and telecommunications technology industry.Crimi, Stephen: - Stephen Crimi is the author of Katabatic Wind: Good Craic Fueled by Fumes from the Abyss; the editor of two collections of talks by biodynamic pioneer Alan Chadwick, Performance in the Garden, and Reverence, Obedience and the Invisible in the Garden; and the publisher of Logosophia Books. |