Tales of a shaman's apprentice : an ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest / Mark J. Plotkin.

New York : Viking, 1993.

x, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographic references (p. [291]-297)

Through the Emerald Door -- The search for the Black Caiman -- Among the Maroons -- Under the double rainbow -- A recipe for poison -- Across the Savannas of the Sipaliwini -- Witch doctor of the Wayanas -- The Semen of the Sun -- Return to Kwamala.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts