WhatsOnMyBookshelf? | Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest | Mark J. Plotkin

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest

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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest

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Books total: 61
Country: United States

Author: Mark J. Plotkin
Number of pages: 328
Publication Date: 1994-08-01
ISBN: 014012991X
Binding: Paperback
Description: Western medicine is only just beginning to value the curative powers of plants and herbs found in the Amazon rain forests. The story of ethnobotanist Mark Plotkins's apprenticeship with shaman wise men of the area is truly an anthropological adventure, that also vividly clarifies what destruction of the rain forests may ultimately cost humanity.Photos. Author lecture tour.

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Clean text. Cover has shelf wear, bend to bottom edge of back.

Condition: Good
Tags: non-fiction

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