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Mark J. Plotkin, an avid lover of Mother Earth, spends time under a shaman’s wing in the Amazon rainforest to study the indigenous science of native medicinal practices. Armed with this knowledge, he opens an Amazonian medicines research laboratory and allocates a portion of its profits to support the tribes that provided his insights. The book presents a nonfiction account of ecological respect, traditional healing, and the ethical use of natural knowledge.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Children's Fiction/Picture Books
Authors: Mark J. Plotkin
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