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George Gessert

1 paper in the library · 198 citations · publishing 1998

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One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest

Leonardo 1998 George Gessert, W. J. Davis 198 citations

In 1974-75, Wade Davis and Tim Plowman traveled the length of South America, living among a dozen Indian tribes, collecting medicinal plants and searching for the origins of coca, the sacred leaf of the Andes and the notorious source of cocaine. It was a journey inspired and made possible by their Harvard mentor, Richard Evans Schultes, the most important scientific explorer in South America in...

DOI: 10.2307/1576526 Amazon rainforest Tropical rain forest Archaeology Forestry +1