One River
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The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.
In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he 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.
A stunning account of adventure and discovery, betrayal and destruction, One River is a story of two generations of explorers drawn together by the transcendent knowledge of Indian peoples, the visionary realms of the shaman, and the extraordinary plants that sustain all life in a forest that once stood immense and inviolable.
مراجعات العملاء
One River
A most inspiring , insightful journey that follows a mysterious flow of life on earth. Not a mere documentation of momentous events in the passage of time and its ripples in this flow ..but, thorough a handful of passionate ethnobotanist across the last centuries , this book weaves a magic offering : THAT which remains timelessly undiscovered in our midst .. Now awakening in the Heart