The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia

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Dioscorides Press, 1990 - Health & Fitness - 484 pages
This 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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Contents

Foreword
7
Acknowledgments
37
General Bibliography
475
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The late Richard Evans Schultes, Jeffrey Professor of Biology and Director of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University (Emeritus), was a plant explorer, ethnobotanist, and conservationist. He was known as the world's authority on medicinal, narcotic, and hallucinogenic plants in the New World. He was the author of numerous books, as well as the translator of The Journals of Hipólito Ruiz. Awards for Richard SchultesLinnean Society Gold Medal

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