Description
Cocaine has started wars, prompted invasions, embarrassed politicians, toppled governments, filled prisons, created billionaires, fuelled parties, bankrupted countries and taken thousands of lives. All because of a small, unremarkable-looking shrub.
Dominic Streatfeild's highly-praised and comprehensive study examines the history of the world's most popular, most problematic drug, from its origins with the Incas, to early enthusiasts including Freud, and the multi-million pound industry it is today. His journey takes him from the darkest corners of the British Library to the isolation cells of America's most secure prisons, from the crack houses of New York to the deepest jungles of South America, as he meets the economists, scientists, law enforcers, historians and traffickers who are involved in policing - and running - the cocaine trade.
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About the Author
Dominic Streatfeild is a TV producer and researcher. Two of his books, Silk Route by Rail and Trans-Siberian Handbook, were nominated for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
Reviews
The best volume on charlie for years...addictive * Observer *
The most comprehensive and intelligent history of cocaine available today * The Times *
Stick your hooter into this volume and you won't be able to stop until you've sniffed out all of its contents * Time Out *
Book Information
ISBN 9780753506271
Author Dominic Streatfeild
Format Paperback
Page Count 560
Imprint Virgin Books
Publisher Ebury Publishing
Weight(grams) 379g
Dimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm * 34mm
