Tales Of A Shaman's Apprentice by Fred Plotkin
An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest
An ethnobotanist journeys deep into the Amazon to apprentice with indigenous healers, documenting their remarkable medicinal plant knowledge while confronting language barriers, cultural protocols, and ethical questions about ownership and benefit-sharing. Through gripping encounters and experiments, he shows how rainforest remedies could inspire modern pharmaceuticals even as deforestation, development, and cultural erosion threaten to obliterate this wisdom. The narrative blends adventure, science, and a plea for conserving biodiversity and respecting the rights of the communities who safeguard it.
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- 1993
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