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Although this is a book of larger ideas and reverberating themes, it is also a delight in its thousand details - the supplies of ships (plum puddings, brandy, heaps of hand-knitted socks, hundreds of pounds of pemmican, knives and needles to barter with the Esquimaux), the hospitality of the Esquimaux women, who reach out with tattooed hands to offer musk-ox horn tea and boiled caribou, the medical treatments for maladies of the day (tartar emetic, mercurous chloride, syrup of squill, tincture of opium).

- as if in sympathy with the rainy Sunday, looked dun and stupid, just as any mortal druggist might be expected to look on a Sunday: and, when I asked for the tincture of opium, he gave it to me as any other man might do.

De Quincey's 'Immortal Druggist' and Wordsworth's 'Power of Music.' (Thomas De Quincey's quotations from William Wordsworth's 'Power of Music')

But if I stuffed myself with too many healthy lettuces I'd probably die (if I didn't explode first) of laudanum poisoning ( a tincture of opium and a recreational drug popular with housewives in the 19th Century ( found in the stem of lettuces.

Chocolate to die for

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