Author: Alan Piper
Title: Bicycle Day and other Psychedelic Essays
Description: Psychedelic Press, London, 2023. First Edition, Hardcover. New Book/New. 9781916266759 23.5cm x 16cm. [vi], ii, 126 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket. "What are the roots of psychedelic culture? Why are psychedelics seen as transgressive? How was Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD’s effects entwined with a world at war? In Bicycle Day and other Psychedelic Essays, Alan Piper explores the often forgotten or ignored early histories of psychoactive drugs that helped shape psychedelia. Falling between the eighteenth century, the Club des Hashischins and the psychedelic sixties, the less explored interwar period has a surprisingly rich culture of drug-induced mind states, which are intimately connected with the birth of modernism. From the literature of Hope Mirrlees, David Lindsay and Ernst Jünger, to Harvard peyote experiments, Hofmann’s occultic network and the relationship of Sandoz pharmaceuticals with Nazi Germany, Alan Piper’s collection is a rich tapestry of literary and social drug history. It includes a Foreword by Mike Jay, author of Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic." (publisher's blurb) Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia; ISBN/EAN: 9781916266759. Inventory No: 0032327.

Keywords: BZDB407 Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia; Unbranded EAN: 9781916266759 Alan Piper Bicycle Day and other Psychedelic Essays


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