When Nicole Maxwell first visited the Amazon more than forty years
ago, she had no idea that she would make a life's work of the
people, plants and lore to be found there. Decades before Americans
became aware of the riches to be found in the knowledge of plant
medicines which native shamans had passed down over thousands of
years, Ms. Maxwell, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, was
scouring the Amazon ram forest for clues to this ancient medical
tradition.
Now, on the eve of the decade in which mankind will have its
last chance to determine the fate of this region and its wealth of
traditional knowledge, Citadel Press's Library of the Mystic Arts
is proud to bring out a newly revised edition of this classic work.
Long hailed as one of the major works of popular ethno-medicine,
this book is both an engaging adventure story and an engrossing
account of the traditions of plant medicine to be found among the
tribes of Amazonia -- and its re-release could not be more
timely.
Scientists now fear that one plant species per day is being made
extinct by man's ravenous appetite for "progress." Of the plants
which are found only in the Amazon rain forest, only a tiny
percentage have been tested for their full medical possibilities.
Witch-Doctor's Apprentice is an inspiring and amusing plea to
modern civilization to save these plants -- and the people who know
how to use them -- before they are destroyed forever.
On the occasion of this newly revised edition, Ms. Maxwell has
created an appendix which catalogs all of the plants mentioned in
the text, with their scientific names, the names by which they are
known locally, and their medicinal uses. This edition also includes
a newintroduction by the noted ethno-botanist Terence McKenna.
"A spirited and engrossing personal narrative, as much about
people and places, discomforts and dangers, the beauty of the
jungle and the arc-leap of wordless communication across cultural
barriers, as it is about... bringing natu
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