The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest AmazoniaThis book represents the life's work of Richard Evans Schultes, one of the fathers of modern ethnobotany and the greatest plant explorer of our age, including nearly 50 years of field research in the Northwest Amazon. The authors describe nearly 1500 species and varieties. |
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