One River: Explorations And Discoveries In The Amazon Rain Forest

Davis, Wade

ISBN 10: 0684808862 / ISBN 13: 9780684808864

Edité par Simon & Schuster, 1996

Signed. Glossy dust jacket showing minor shelfwear, moderate edgewear. Hardcover showing minor corner wear; light bumping to spine edges. Pencilled name and light smudge on FEP. Personalized inscription signed by author opposite title page. Text block appears unmarked, no creasing or curling. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. N° de réf. du vendeur mon0000011603

Synopsis :

Book by Davis Wade

Présentation de l'éditeur: The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.

In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorious source of cocaine, a sacred plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality.

A stunning account of adventure and discovery, betrayal and destruction, One River is a story of two generations of explorers drawn together by the transcendent knowledge of Indian peoples, the visionary realms of the shaman, and the extraordinary plants that sustain all life in a forest that once stood immense and inviolable.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : One River: Explorations And Discoveries In ...
Éditeur : Simon & Schuster
Date d'édition : 1996
Reliure : hardcover
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : Good