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Title: ONE RIVER by Wade Davis ISBN: 0-684-83496-0 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Davis'portrayal of the Amazon is brilliant.
Comment: One River was one of the best books I have read in quite some time. As a Ph.D student in Botany, I was inspired by the accounts of Shultes, Plowman and Davis' journeys to the Amazon seeking tropical plants and learning from the people who have been using them for generations.. Davis has a rare ability to mix technical science writing with a deep knowledge of history, culture, and politics and make it flow into a coherent narrative. Any student of ecology, evolution, (especially of plants) will love this book as will people with an interest in the cultures and history of the Amazon basin.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fabulous Journey
Comment: This is one of the best natural history and history of science an culture books I have ever read. I started this after reading another scintillating science book by David Quammen "Song of the Dodo" which I have since read again with great pleasure but "One River" forms a link between science and culture that was untouched in Quammen's tale of A.R. Wallace. The curious link is that Wallace started his journey's as a collector in the Amazon and covered some of the ground that Davis retraced.
Davis does a marvelous job of melding his and Schultes adventures in interlocking chapters. The tale of the mission to secure a supply of rubber during the war and the subsequent loss of the incredible genetic library that Schultes founded and was subsequently destroyed by bureaucratic bumbling is classic and tragic.
A wonderful read, highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Even Deeper in the Wonder
Comment: This will be a very short review on a book that has long been with me. While working on a reproductive biology macaw research project climbing into the canopy of the Amazon each day for 3 months i found ONE RIVER one night piled amongst the research literature. Even though i had the Amazon literally ground into my bones after so many days of hard labor i could not put this book down each night reading by candle. Could one gourge on steak then still enjoy reading about cattle? This is simply a fascinating, and most well written book on arguably the most complex wonderful ecosystem as experienced by a most hard working curiously gifted individual. Do your soul a favor and read this book 5 times!!!
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Title: Shadows in the Sun : Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire by Wade Davis ISBN: 0767904028 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 12 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW by Wade Davis ISBN: 0684839296 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures by Wade Davis ISBN: 0792264746 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Christian Ratsch, Christian Rā Tsch ISBN: 0892819790 Publisher: Healing Arts Pr Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Where the Gods Reign: Plants and Peoples of the Colombian Amazon by Richard Evans Schultes ISBN: 0907791131 Publisher: Synergetic Press Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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