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This definitive book represents the life's work of the late 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.
About the Author
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. The late Robert F. Raffauf, phytochemist, Amazonian adventurer, educator, and world plant explorer was Professor of Pharmacognosy and Medicinal Chemistry (Emeritus) at Northeastern University in Boston until his death in 2001.
The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia (Historical, Ethno-& Economic Botany, Vol 2),Richard Evans Schultes,Robert F. Raffauf,Timber Press,0931146143,Amazon River Valley,Anthropology - Cultural,Encyclopedias,General,Life Sciences - Botany,Materia medica, Vegetable,Medical Botany,Medicinal plants,Nature,Poisonous plants,Reference,Science,Science/Mathematics,Amazon river,Anthropology,Botany & plant sciences,Deforestation,Forests, rainforests
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