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One River

One River

Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest

by Wade Davis
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/09/1997

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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 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.
ISBN:
9780684834962
9780684834962
Category:
Anthropology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-09-1997
Language:
English
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
234.95x155.57x38.1mm
Weight:
0.65kg
Wade Davis

Wade Davis is a multi award-winning writer and acclaimed photographer whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic.

Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia.

He is the best-selling author of 22 books, including One River, The Wayfinders and Into the Silence, which was awarded the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize.

In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018 he became an Honorary Citizen of Colombia.

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