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Anthropology Biography Memoir Shaman Shamanism Spirit SpiritualityWritten by Mark J. Plotkin
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Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice has been called “one of the greatest adventure stories ever told.” Author Mark Plotkin, chief ethnobotanist for Conservation International, has spent much of the past 15 years tracking the shamans of the northeast Amazon. Their knowledge of healing plants may hold the cure to some of today’s most devastating diseases.
This book is a critically acclaimed account of his apprenticeship to these powerful wise men, a gripping journey into a wild and wonderful world seldom glimpsed by outsiders.