
A book by Wade Davis that follows the journey of two generations of explorers in the Amazon. It focuses on the legendary ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes and his students as they document the botanical knowledge and sacred plants of indigenous tribes. The book is a seminal work in ethnobotany, detailing the discovery of various medicinal plants and the cultural significance of substances like Ayahuasca.
If you listen to authors like Wade Davis who writes a lot about indigenous wisdom, you know, this is stuff that's been one at a time gleaned from nature.
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"Paul Rosolie mentions author Wade Davis in the context of indigenous knowledge and plant medicine. 'One River' is Davis's most famous and relevant work regarding the Amazonian botanical wisdom discussed in the conversation."





