Poison Eaters: Snakes, Opium, Arsenic, and the Lethal Show

By Richard M. Swiderski

Book Overview

Testing the boundaries between food, poison and medicine is a public show made into a continuing drama of risk and survival. This book is the first to explore the tradition of deliberate poison... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599428342
• ISBN13: 9781599428345
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Universal Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"