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One River

Wade Davis

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In 1974-75, Wade Davis and Tim Plowman traveled the length of South America, living among a dozen Indian tribes, collecting medicinal plants and searching for the origins of coca, the sacred leaf of the Andes and the notorious source of cocaine. It was a journey inspired and made possible by their Harvard mentor, Richard Evans Schultes, the most important scientific explorer in South America in this century, whose exploits rival those of Darwin and the great naturalist explorers of the Victorian age. In 1941, after having identified ololiuqui, the long-lost Aztec hallucinogen, and having collected the first specimens of teonanacatl, the sacred mushroom of Mexico, Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard and disappeared into the Northwest Amazon of Colombia. Twelve years later, he returned from South America, having gone places no outsider had ever been, mapping uncharted rivers and living among two dozen Indian tribes. He collected some twenty thousand botanical specimens, including three hundred species new to science, and documented the invaluable knowledge of native shamans. The world's leading authority on plant hallucinogens, Schultes was for his students a living link to a distant time when the tropical rain forests stood immense, inviolable, a mantle of green stretching across entire continents. It was a world greatly changed by the time Davis and Plowman began their journey, nearly thirty years later, and changed further today.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publish Date: Aug 5th, 1997
  • Pages: 544
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.20in - 6.10in - 1.30in - 1.35lb
  • EAN: 9780684834962
  • Categories: • Anthropology - Cultural & Social• Life Sciences - Ecology

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About the Author

Davis, Wade: - Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, and former Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. He is Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of Columbia. Davis has written 22 books and is the winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize. He holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University.

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My Daemon made me do it. Books include Odin's Tillit, Terraform Charlie, Time Sneak: Emergence, & Legacy of Seconds. WIPs: Parn & Way of the Hatchet.

@tonia_k_ua Wade Davis' One River is a great book about the Amazon. For Fantasy, you could try Jose P. Farmer's Riverworld Series

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Founder: @McKennaAcademy. The reedition of Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna is now available!

ONE RIVER BY WADE DAVIS "In the 1970s, Schultes sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorious source of cocaine, a sacred plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality." https://t.co/WS1ncjoeiE

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Retired NPR Science correspondent. Audio storytelling in the service of nature. Two books, two kids. Former New Scientist mag. Scicomm trainer with COMPASS.

Also, ‘One River,’ Wade Davis. https://t.co/vgjhvpgywc

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