On The Trail Of The Opium Poppy A Narrative Of Travel In The Chief Opium Producing Provinces Of China By Sir Alexander Hosie

Author : Alexander Hosie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266581444
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, Vol. 1 written by Alexander Hosie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, Vol. 1: A Narrative of Travel in the Chief Opium-Producing Provinces of China This book is not a history of the Opium Question, nor does it deal with the evils which attend the abuse of the drug.' It is a plain narrative of journeys made in China during the years 1910 and 1911 for the purpose of investigating the extent of poppy-cultivation in those provinces which had hitherto been the chief centres of opium production. The main results of this investigation have already been made public through the medium of Parliamentary papers; but he would be a poor observer who confined his attention to one particular subject and shut his eyes to_ the physical characteristics and economic conditions that constantly present themselves, not to speak of those incidents which befall every traveller in a little known and, in part, unexplored country. It is in the hope that a description of these characteristics, conditions and incidents may prove of some interest that the following pages, compiled from my diary, are now published. The inception, organization and methods of the anti-opium crusade in China are described in the first of two Appen dices, the second of which contains a summary of my investigation into poppy cultivation in each of the Six provinces traversed by me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.