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The Devil's Garden
Facts and Folklore of Perilous Plants
Edward R Ricciuti
Hardbound with original dust jacket
172 pages with complete index
b&w illustrations
Publisher: Walker
Date Published: 1978
The author examines everything from mushrooms to marijuana, orchids to oleander, monkshood to mandrake, and poppies to poison ivy. Ricciuti gives an absorbing account of the perverse fascination that certain plants have held for man - leading to such excesses as human sacrifice, torture and murder.
The abuse of plant-derived poisons is traced from its origins in primative fertility rites to mass murders, jungle warfare and today's drug culture.
The book has been gently read, the pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket is slightly scuffed
Order by ITEM #BKS-180-07
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