Originally published in 1999, compiled and edited by Richard Rudgley, 'Wildest Dreams -- An anthology of drug-related literature' is nothing if not comprehensive. Ranging from the second to the twentieth century A.D. 'Wildest Dreams' is a grand tour of the human relationship with drugs, through the medium of literature.
Rudgley, born in Hampshire in 1961, had previously published 'The Alchemy of Culture: Intoxicants in Society' and 'The Encyclopaedia of Psychoactive Substances' before compiling this anthology. His goal is to dispel the belief that "it all started in the Sixties." What Rudgley manages to do is portray a multiplicity of relationships that point toward a recurrent social phenomena; one which entails negative, objective and positive approaches to drugs...
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