- Paperback: 537 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; 1st Touchstone Ed edition (25 Aug 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0684834960
- ISBN-13: 978-0684834962
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 3.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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In 1974-75, Wade Davis and Tim Plowman traveled the length of South America, living among a dozen Indian tribes, collecting medicinal plants and searching for the origins of coca, the sacred leaf of the Andes and the notorious source of cocaine. It was a journey inspired and made possible by their Harvard mentor, Richard Evans Schultes, the most important scientific explorer in South America in this century, whose exploits rival those of Darwin and the great naturalist explorers of the Victorian age. In 1941, after having identified ololiuqui, the long-lost Aztec hallucinogen, and having collected the first specimens of teonanacatl, the sacred mushroom of Mexico, Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard and disappeared into the Northwest Amazon of Colombia. Twelve years later, he returned from South America, having gone places no outsider had ever been, mapping uncharted rivers and living among two dozen Indian tribes. He collected some twenty thousand botanical specimens, including three hundred species new to science, and documented the invaluable knowledge of native shamans. The world's leading authority on plant hallucinogens, Schultes was for his students a living link to a distant time when the tropical rain forests stood immense, inviolable, a mantle of green stretching across entire continents. It was a world greatly changed by the time Davis and Plowman began their journey, nearly thirty years later, and changed further today.
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WHEN I FIRST lived in Columbia, I used to stay from time to time on a farm just outside the city of Medellin. Read the first page
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
"One River" is one of the most fascinating and readable books about South America that I have ever come across. Although Wade Davis obviously intends his work to be a tribute to his mentor, Schultes, and his friend Tim Plowman, the book is much more than a mere botanical biography. Davis writes with great enthusiasm and combines subjects that continually entertain and inform the reader. The book is filled with true tales of adventures on the Amazon, encounters with jungle tribes, fanatical hunts for rare plants, and wild journeys through the remote Andes. Exploration, excitement and ethnobotany are skilfully blended with a well-researched history of South America. The reader is presented with a great deal of thought-provoking material about the past, present and future of this contradictory continent. HIGHLY recommended.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Absolutely fascinating story of the Amazon this/last century. A fantastic chapter on the rubber boom and its side affects on the Amazon peoples. Also contains a chapter on the Waorani which the book is worth buying for alone as I learnt more on the Wao's from this chapter than I did from one whole book on the waorani by another author. This book does not contain one tedious moment between its two covers.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Without doubt one of the most wonderful books I've ever read.
Exceptionally researched, really clever intertwining of the the personal experience, history and biography of the mentor.
A great writer!
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Anyone still doubting the superiority of fact over fiction need only take this book to a quiet corner and start reading. Read more
Published on 3 Feb 2006 by Stephen A. Haines
top book on colombia and rainforest
excellent read which inspires fear now that the gringos are talking of aerial spraying of the colombian rain forests. Read more
Published on 10 Dec 2000
Exciting and enlightening
I too found this book amazing. I read it whilst working as a jungle guide in Peru and it was such a good companion. Read more
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