Download or read book The Yage Letters Redux written by William S. Burroughs and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, Burroughs began an expedition into the jungles of South America, ostensibly to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. But Burroughs also cast his eye over the local regimes to record trademark vignettes of political and psychic malaise. The book was completed by the addition of Ginsberg's experiences with yage.