{"product_id":"the-serpent-and-the-rainbow","title":"The Serpent and the Rainbow","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. First ed., first printing (full number line). Octavo with two-tone purple boards in purple and orange pictorial jacket; 297 pages; glossary; bibliography;  index; 25 cm Very good to near fine copy; prior owner inscription in ink on front flyleaf; occasional tiny smudges to a handful of pages; very good (+) jacket with slightest scuffing now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780671502478, 9780684839295\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is the story of how Wade Davis not only discovered the formula of the zombi drug and brought it back to the United States for testing, but also penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture.\" --Jacket copy. Contents: pt. 1. The poison. The jaguar. \"The frontier of death\". The Calabar hypothesis. White darkness and the living dead. A lesson in history. Everything is poison, nothing is poison. pt. 2. Interlude at Harvard. Columns on a blackboard. Voodoo death. pt. 3. The secret societies. In summer the pilgrims walk. The serpent and the rainbow. Tell my horse. Dancing in the lion's jaw. Sweet as honey, bitter as bile. Epilogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Davis, Wade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46619207434498,"sku":"104729","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/104729.jpg?v=1753388991","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/the-serpent-and-the-rainbow","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}