A Basilisk Glance: Poisoners from Plato to Putin

by Robert Templer

Poison - invisible, unknown, hard to detect and deadly - taps into hard-wired anxieties about the risks of the world around us. From ancient times to the modern age, it has always created more fear than any other threats. In A Basilisk Glance: Poisoners from Plato to Putin, author Robert Templer takes us through the dark maze of poison. He traces its path from when Hercules dipped his arrows in the blood from the severed head of the Hydra to the use...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1739424344
• ISBN13: 9781739424343
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Bui Jones Limited
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.0" x 7.8"