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Book Review of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest

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A book that's simultaneously a travel book, a science book, an adventure story about a journey into Amazonia, and a cultural examination. Not to mention Grade A literature! Mark Plotkin is an American treasure, both as a scientist AND a writer, but most of all as a first rate conservationist of the highest caliber. This is my kind of book.