Very fine copy in paper wraps, Golden Guide, 4\u201dx5.5\u201d fully illustrated in color, 160 pls., first printing of the 1976 first edition, a beautiful fine+ copy spine undamaged, no creasing, a tiny amount of edge wear at the front bottom about 1\u201d noticeable in photo, an almost new copy of an important study of hallucinogenic plants and their religious, spiritual and cultural significance. <\/p>\n
Around the same time Albert Hofmann synthesized LSD in the early 1940s, a pioneering ethnobotanist, writer, and photographer named Richard Evan Schultes set out \u201con a mission to study how indigenous peoples\u201d in the Amazon rainforest \u201cused plants for medicinal, ritual and practical purposes,\u201d as an extensive history of Schultes\u2019 travels notes. \u201cHe went on to spend over a decade immersed in near-continuous fieldwork, collecting more than 24,000 species of plants including some 300 species new to science.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDescribed by Jonathan Kandell as \u201cswashbuckling\u201d in a 2001 New York Times obituary, Schultes was \u201cthe last of the great plant explorers in the Victorian tradition.\u201d Or so his student Wade Davis called him in his 1995 bestseller The Serpent and the Rainbow. He was also \u201ca pioneering conservationist,\u201d writes Kandell, \u201cwho raised alarms in the 1960\u2019s\u2014long before environmentalism became a worldwide concern.\u201d Schultes defied the stereotype of the colonial adventurer, once saying, \u201cI do not believe in hostile Indians. All that is required to bring out their gentlemanliness is reciprocal gentlemanliness.\u201d<\/p>\n
A nontechnical examination of the physiological effects and cultural significance of hallucinogenic plants used in ancient and modern societies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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