Aldous Huxley's Hands: His Quest for Perception and the Origin and Return of Psychedelic Science

by Allene Symons

Book Overview

Psychedelics, neuroscience, and historical biography come together when a journalist finds a lost photograph of Aldous Huxley and uncovers a hidden side of the celebrated author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception. Allene Symons had no inkling that Aldous Huxley was once a friend of her father's until the summer of 2001 when she discovered a box of her dad's old photographs. For years in the 1940s and '50s, her father had meticulously photographed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633881164
• ISBN13: 9781633881167
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"