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Author Plotkin, Mark J.

Title Tales of a shaman's apprentice : an ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest / Mark J. Plotkin.

Imprint New York : Viking, 1993.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  581.6340981 P724t    ---  Available
Description x, 318 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-297).
Contents Through the Emerald Door -- The search for the Black Caiman --Among the Maroons -- Under the double rainbow -- A recipe for poison --Across the Savannas of the Sipaliwini -- Witch doctor of the Wayanas --The Semen of the Sun -- Return to Kwamala.
Subject Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Ethnobotany.
Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Medicine.
Amazon River Region -- Description and travel.
ISBN 0670831379 : $22.00

 
    
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