Pioneer of Inner Space: The Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, With Collected Letters and Poetry - Couverture rigide

Dulchinos, Donald P

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ISBN 10 : 0996639497 ISBN 13 : 9780996639491

Editeur : Logosophia, 2018

Synopsis

Fitz Hugh Ludlow burst on the literary scene in 1857 with the unlikely best seller The Hasheesh Eater. Written when he was just 20 years old, the book swept him into a career as a prolific novelist, short story author, arts critic, travel writer, journalist and editor. His friends and colleagues ranged from Walt Whitman to Brigham Young to Mark Twain. The material published in Ludlow's Collected Works displays a depth of observation, a breadth of erudition and an appetite for extreme experience applied to the emerging modern American nation. The first (and only) biography of Ludlow, Pioneer of Inner Space, was first published in 1998 by Autonomedia Press, as part of a series of critical reconsiderations of drug policy in America. It is no accident that this compilation of Ludlow's Collected Works coincides with yet another turn in social attitudes with legalization of marijuana in multiple states. Further, academic attitudes have changed, and Ludlow is the focus of many recent reviews of his drug writings, his Bohemian lifestyle and professional life in 19^th century New York City. Publication of this new edition of Pioneer of Inner Space--which has been updated, re-illustrated and contains Ludlow's extant lettters and poetry--fittingly concludes his Collected Works, and provides valuable personal context and insight for Ludlow's varied writings, finally available in their entirety to the research community and the general public.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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

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.

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Logosophia
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0996639497
• ISBN 13: 9780996639491
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 724
• Éditeur: Crimi Stephen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible