Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest
Author: Mark J. Plotkin
“Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice” has been called “one of the greatest adventure stories ever told.” Author Mark Plotkin, chief ethnobotanist for Conservation International, has spent much of the past 15 years tracking the shamans of the northeast Amazon. Their knowledge of healing plants may hold the cure to some of today’s most devastating diseases. This book is a critica….Read More
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