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Ethnobotany
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The Desert Smells Like Rain, A Naturalist in O'odham Country  •  Gary Paul Nabhan   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A compassionate portrait and natural history of the Papago Indians of Arizona's Sonoran desert. (USW275, $17.95)
 
 
The Green Pharmacy  •  James A. Duke   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An A-Z catalog of ailments and the herbal remedies that heal them. (AMZ40, $19.95)
 
 
Light at the Edge of the World  •  Wade Davis   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic Davis surveys the global diversity of peoples and cultures in this meditative account of travels from the Arctic to the Amazon to Borneo. (WLD34, $16.95)
 
 
One River, Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon  •  Wade Davis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A spellbinding, sprawling tale of explorers, botanical secrets, and larger-than-life personalities in northwest South America. (AMZ22, $17.00)
 
 
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers  •  Richard Evans Schultes  •  Albert Hofmann   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An illuminating guide to hallucinogens, the ecology, chemistry and, especially, the use in the healing rites of indigenous peoples. (AMZ38, $29.95)
 
 
Rainforest Remedies: One Hundred Healing Herbs of Belize  •  Michael J. Balick  •  Rosita Arvigo   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  100 traditional herbs of Belize along with the culture and lore surrounding their use. (BLZ10, $15.95)
 
 
Sacred Leaves of Candomble: African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil  •  Robert A. Voeks   • RELIGION  •  An account of the ethnobotany of African religious and healing traditions in Brazil. (BZL29, $25.00)
 
 
The Shaman's Apprentice  •  Lynne Cherry  •  Mark Plotkin   • LITERATURE • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)  •  The tale of a young boy's fascination with the magical world of the shaman. (AMZ24, $16.00)
 
 
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice  •  Mark Plotkin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  In this marvelous book, Plotkin recounts his work documenting the use of medicinal plants among remote tribes in the Northwest Amazon of Suriname, Venezuela, Guyana and French Guiana. The book is a portrait of people and their environment, a tale of adventure and, most of all, a moving example of science in the service of preservation. A great read for anyone traveling anywhere on the Amazon. (AMZ15, $16.00)
 
 
Vine of the Soul, Medicine Men, Their Plants, and Rituals in the Colombian Amazon  •  Richard Evans Schultes  •  Robert F. Raffauf   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Written by Schultes, the father of ethnobotany, with a colleague, this book features 150 photographs along with a detailed and authoritative text describing the many uses of plant substances. (AMZ59, $29.95)
 
 
 




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