Title Tales of a shaman's apprentice : an ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest / Mark J. Plotkin.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	F2230.1.B7 P56 1993	Available	---

Description	x, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-297).
Contents	Through the Emerald Door -- The search for the Black Caiman -- Among the Maroons -- Under the double rainbow -- A recipe for poison -- Across the Savannas of the Sipaliwini -- Witch doctor of the Wayanas -- The Semen of the Sun -- Return to Kwamala.
Subject	Indians of South America -- Ethnobotany -- Amazon River Region.
	Indians of South America -- Ethnobotany.
	Amazon River Region.
	Indians of South America -- Medicine -- Amazon River Region.
	Indians of South America -- Medicine.
	Plotkin, Mark J.
	Plotkin, Mark J.
	Amazon River Region -- Description and travel.
Genre/Form	Autobiographies.
	Autobiographies.
ISBN	0670831379 : $22.00