Download or read book The Mystique of Opium written by Donald Wigal and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2024-07-06 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opium used to have the same importance in international economy and state-led strategies as petrol has today. It became the basis for trade with isolationist China as soon as the Opium Wars obtained trading rights for Western Companies. International strategies for personal reveries… 19th-century European writers were to begin praising this “midnight fairy”. This book offers a tastefully illustrated history of this toxic substance, its paraphernalia and era.