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Ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin searches for healing substances in a remote, exotic part of the world. The medicinal plants of the Northeast Amazon rain forest-many of which have already become part of our pharmacopoeia-and the shamans who have intimate knowledge of them are his passion. "Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burns down," says Plotkin in Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice. And he has done something about it, recording the wisdom of the shamans himself and in native Indian languages to preserve what encroaching modern "civilization" and missionaries are fast eradicating. An offbeat, provocative audio, read by the author.
Sukey Howard has been reviewing spoken word audio for more than five years.
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