TALES OF A SHAMAN'S APPRENTICE An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest

Mark J. Plotkin

ISBN 10: 0670831379 / ISBN 13: 9780670831371

Published by Viking Adult, New York, 1993

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Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches; 318 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TALES OF A SHAMAN'S APPRENTICE An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest
• Publisher: Viking Adult, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670831379
• ISBN 13: 9780670831371
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; Fifth Printing.
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Science, Medicine & Natural History
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Synopsis

An ethnobotanist recounts his experiences in the rain forests tracking the shamans whose knowledge of the curative powers of plants and herbs could hold the key to the cure for AIDS, cancer, and other life-threatening illnesses. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

About the Author

Mark J. Plotkin, Ph.D., was born and raised in New Orleans and educated at Harvard, Yale, and Tufts. Trained as an ethnobotanist, he has done extensive research throughout the lowlands of tropical South America. He currently serves as president of the Amazon Conservation Team and research associate at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History. His research has been featured in Life, Newsweek, Smithsonian, Time, and The New York Times as well as PBS's Nova and the Academy Award-winning documentary "Amazon."