One River
Book by Wade Davis
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The Amazon river basin contains the world's largest remaining rain forest as well as its longest river. Countless Indian tribes live there, as well as vast numbers of plant species, many of them still unknown to science. ... Google Books
Originally published: 1996
Author: Wade Davis
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Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic. Explorer-in ...
Thirty years later his student, Wade Davis, followed in his footsteps. Two interwoven tales of scientific adventure bring to life the riches of the Amazon basin ...
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Edmund Wade Davis has been described as "a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life's diversity." An ethnographer, ...
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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 ...
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Best known for The Serpent and the Rainbow, Wade Davis is an ethnobotanist interested in the native uses of plants, especially psychotropics.
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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 ...
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A quirky wonder of a book. ... A Peabody Award–winning NPR science reporter chronicles the life of a turn-of-the-century scientist and how her quest led to ...
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The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic.
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Wade Davis, Harold Davis. Simon & Schuster, $27.5 (544pp) ISBN 978-0-684-80886-4. The prodigious biological and cultural riches of the vast Amazon rain ...