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Modern De Quincey, A: Autobiography Of An Opium Addict, Paperback / softback Book

Modern De Quincey, A: Autobiography Of An Opium Addict Paperback / softback

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In 1923, upon completion of a posting in northern Burma, Captain Robinson returned to Mandalay to await a new assignment.

While there he sampled the pleasures of the opium den.

This is his account of the seduction of a naive young romantic by the East and of his narrow escape from death.

Captain Robinson, completing a posting as a young British administrator in remote northern Burma, returned to Mandalay in 1923 to await a new assignment.

One evening, Robinson and two friends, came upon an opium den.

While his friends called it a night, Robinson stayed on to sample the forbidden

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