Smokiana: Historical; Ethnographical

"Smokiana: Historical; Ethnographical" by R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett is a detailed exploration of the world of smoking in the 1800s. The book shows the history and culture around smoking, with attention to the many different pipes and tools people used. It explains how smoking habits changed over time and varied from place to place, mainly with tobacco. Pritchett uses pictures and stories to show smoking devices, old stories, and customs connected to smoking in areas like Europe, Africa, and Asia. He stresses the importance of how pipes were made, what they were made from, and what smoking meant to different groups of people; it is essentially a display of how smoking wove itself into different societies and times, as well as demonstrating how cultures traded through this common act.