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Author: Castaneda, Carlos
Title: The Teachings of Don Juan
Place Published: Berkeley and Los Angeles
Publisher:University of California Press
Date Published: 1968
Description: Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket, custom drop-back box. First Edition.Castaneda‘s account of his interactions in the early 1960s with don Juan Matus, a Mexican shaman. He has a large focus on the use and effects of various psychedelic substances to effect a new approach to reality. The veracity of his accounts in this work and its sequels has been questioned, notably by Joyce Carol Oates in 1972, although it nonetheless had been accepted for his PhD in Anthropology at UCLA, became a New York Times best-seller, at UCLA and continues to be republished by the University of California Press as nonfiction.

Small bump to jacket spine, else fine.