false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170443671m/54770.jpg 54770 3 Best known for <i>The Serpent and the Rainbow</i>, Wade Davis is an ethnobotanist interested in the native uses of plants, especially psychotropics. He finds many such plants in the travels he recounts in <i>One River</i>, especially coca and curare. (The first, famously, is a curse in the First World but is a necessity in the Andes, where it promotes the digestion of many kinds of food plants.) Framing Davis's narrative is an account of the dangerous World War II-era Amazonian expeditions undertaken by his mentor, Harvard biologist Richard Evans Schultes. Davis describes a few hair-raising encounters of his own, making this a fine book of scientific adventure. 834334 1996 One River total:180|5:102|4:56|3:19|2:3|1:0| 180 797 278 36 54770 0684834960 9780684834962 173 36 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170443671m/54770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54770.One_River 4 1 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 15:42:49 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 15:50:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 54770 0684834960 9780684834962 173 36 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170443671m/54770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54770.One_River 5 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Oct 06 16:23:22 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 06 16:26:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 54770 0684834960 9780684834962 173 36 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170443671m/54770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54770.One_River 5 0 false Thu Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jun 26 17:24:50 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 06 13:39:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 54770 0684834960 9780684834962 173 36 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170443671m/54770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54770.One_River 5 0 false Fri Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 09:50:22 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 16:06:21 -0700 2008 The book is a great read in that it has a little of everything-- travel and adventure, ethnobotany (botany and cultural anthropology), history, politics, and...more...]]> 54770 0684834960 9780684834962 173 36 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170443671m/54770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54770.One_River 5 0 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Feb 19 19:10:20 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 16 08:06:28 -0700 2009
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