The Underworld of the East: Being Eighteen Years' Actual Experiences of the Underworlds, Drug Haunts and Jungles of India, China and the Malay Archipelago
About this title: Published initially in 1936, this 1894 memoir shares the details of Lee's wanderings through Asia enjoying cocaine, opium, hashish, and an enigmatic "Elixer of Life" he found in Sumatra.
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London
Date Published: 1935
Description: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A very exciting and tense read showing what it was like for an Englishman to escape the confines of deadening society and to be able to travel the far east whilst working as a mining engineer. At one point trapped by a man eating tiger the next marrying a local girl. During his travels the author meets everything the east has to offer by way of excitement and danger. He forms the first motorcycle gang in the east. But the main interest in the ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Green Magic
Date Published: 26/05/2000
ISBN-13:9780953663118ISBN:0953663116
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Green Magic
Date Published: 2000-08-01
ISBN-13:9780953663118ISBN:0953663116
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: UK Sampson Low (Date on Preface)
Date Published: 1935
Description: Octavo. Dark blue/black cloth. VG+ copy, binding secure, some small stains to boards, some browning to page edges. Bookplate of Owen Rutter to front pastedown. 'Being 18 years' actual experiences of the underworlds, drug haunts and jungles of India, China, and the Malay Archipelago. read more
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