Vine of the Soul - Couverture souple

Schultes, Richard Evans; Raffauf, Robert F.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 090779131X ISBN 13 : 9780907791317

Editeur : Synergetic Press Inc.,U.S., 2003

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Vine of the Soul The most comprehensive collection of authoritative writings on the subject ever published. A panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience. These include indigenous mythic narratives and testimonies, religious hymns, as well as narratives related by western travelers, scientists, and writers who have had contact with ayahuasa in different contexts. Some of ... Full description

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This book is the story of a time that was - a time when the Amazon Indian was free to roam the forest and rivers happy with their social institutions unencumbered by acculturation or the cultural destruction of their ancient societies and virgin forests. The story is told through over 160 black & white photographs taken by renown Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes during the '40s and '50s when he spent fourteen uninterrupted years living with the Indian tribes of the Amazon. Combining his scientific eye for documentation with a photographer's eye for lighting composition and character he created an extraordinary record of the medicinal plants and flora of the Colombian Amazon. Co-authored by Robert F. Raffauf an outstanding plant chemist VINE OF THE SOUL contains some of the most significant photographs on this subject ever taken accompanied by detailed descriptions of the Amazon Indians use of medicinal and other sacred plant substances with information on the bioactive chemistry and medicinal properties of their plants. The second edition contains a Preface by Wade Davis Explorer-in-Residence for the National Geographic Society; a Foreword by Sir Ghillean Prance Former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew England; and Epilogue by Michael Balick Director of Institute of Economic Botany NY Botanical Gardens. He was of course a great botanist arguably the most important Amazonian plant explorer of the 20th century. In over twelve years of nearly constant fieldwork he collected more than 20000 specimens discovered some 300 species new to science chronicled the use of more than 2000 novel medicinal plants. He mapped unknown rivers lived among unknown tribes became conversant in several indigenous languages. In time mountains would bear his name as would national preserves. For all who knew him he was a link to the great naturalists of the Victorian Age and a distant era when the neotropical rainforests stood immense inviolable a mantle of green stretching cross an entire continent. Wade Davis Explorer-in-Residence National Geographic Society from the Preface Thanks to the attention drawn to the Amazon Indians by Schultes and others the former President of Colombia Virgilio Barco returned over six million hectares of land to the Indians for their exclusive use. The Colombian Government further created a number of biological reserves bringing the total area under protection to more than 20000000 hectares

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Synergetic Press Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 090779131X
• ISBN 13: 9780907791317
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 290