David Bramwell's "Outlandish: Countercultural Heroes & Journeys" (2024)

n.p.: Nightfinch Books (book), 2024.
8.25" x 5.875" x 0.5", 175 pages, softcover, no ISBN.

Outlandish: Countercultural Heroes & Journeys by David Bramwell, as first published in softcover by Nightfinch Books (n.p.) in 2024. This is a "compendium of biographies, singular journeys and short stories [and a comic on Aleister Crowley illustrated by Nye Wright]." Design and cover by Erica Smith. Proofreading by Esme Needham.

This book contains a chapter, “The Final Fix,” in which William S. Burroughs, his search for Yage, and the ethnobotanical work of Richard Evans Schultes are discussed. Burroughs mostly shows up on pages 120-124.

This copy is signed on the title page by the author and additionally inscribed by its former owner, Jim Pennington (Aloes Books, London), to me. This copy contains Jim Pennington's reading marginalia. Received as a gift from Jim Pennington.

Contents:

• Introduction
• "X Marks the Spot"
• "Journeys of Confinement"
• "Sister Corita Kent"
• "Totemic Journeys"
• "Paul Robeson"
• "Strange Cargo"
• "Amanda Fielding"
• "Detours of the Dead"
• "Journeys of Love and Loss"
• "The Final Fix"
• "Madame Blavatsky"
• "The Dadaist Journeyman"
• "Alan Moore"
• "Something in the Water"