[ Psychoactive Plants ] PENDELL, Dale. Foreword by Gary Snyder.

Pharmako Poeia. Plant Powers, Poisons and Herbcraft [ Pharmako/Poeia, Pharmako Gnosis ].

Berkeley CA: North Atlantic Books, [ 2009 ]. New Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. xvi + 288pp. Fine black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, b&w illustrations, glossary, refererences, credits, index. A new edition of the first volume of Dale Pendell’s Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopaedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. Though each volume is a stand-alone work, together the three books form an interrelated suite of works that provide the reader with a comprehensive, reliable, and often personal immersion in the subject. From the publisher: "Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft focuses on familiar psychoactive plant-derived substances and related synthetics, ranging from the licit (tobacco, alcohol) to the illicit (cannabis, opium) and the exotic (absinthe, salvia divinorum, nitrous oxide). Each substance is explored in detail, not only with information on its history, pharmacology, preparation, and cultural and esoteric correspondences, but also the subtleties of each plant’s effect on consciousness in a way that only poets can do. The Pharmako series is continued in Pharmako/Dynamis focusing on stimulants and empathogens and Pharmako/Gnosis which addresses psychedelics and shamanic plants." Appears "as new" thus near Fine in mylar protected near Fine dust jacket. Item #68523
ISBN: 9781556438875

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