The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes @ richardeward.com

The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes
by Wade Davis
from Chronicle Books

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• The Lost Amazon: The Photo Journey of Richard Schultes
  We purchased the book after seeing the exhibit at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in DC last month. My husband is a botany mature and the book and photos were especially interesting to him.

• Best photos ever of the Amazon
  
  This is the way to see the Amazon, through the Rolleiflex camera of one of the greatest explorer-scientists.
  This is the way to hear of the Amazon, through the Irish tale-telling of Wade Davis, himself an epic explorer-scientist.

• PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY OF RICHARD EVANS SCHULTES
  Schultes was perhaps the greatest ethnobotanists of all time and definitely the father of the subject. In this book, his pupil (and today famed explorer) Wade Davis puts together a sampling of his photographs throughout his life in the Amazon, providing a visual context to the story about the great scientist and explorer.
  Schultes lived among indians for many years in the northwestern Amazon, in search for knowledge about its plants and their secrets. He uncovered many hallucinogenic plants in the... more info

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