Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography

Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography
ISBN-10
0312422261
ISBN-13
9780312422264
Series
Cocaine
Category
History
Pages
536
Language
English
Published
2003-07
Publisher
Macmillan
Author
Dominic Streatfeild

Description

Examines the history of cocaine from its first medical uses to the worldwide issues it presents today, taking readers into such locations as the isolation cells of America's prisons, crack houses in New York, and the jungles of Bolivia and Colombia, tracing its manufacture and chronicling the accounts of its cultivators, traffickers, and fighters. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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