![]() ![]() ![]() The Shaman’s Apprentice charts the story of Mark’s discoveries in his own words, and looks with fresh eyes at the astonishing ability of native people to manage their environment. ![]() What Mark has found in those green and tangled forests has been more complex, more interesting than mere medicine. Inspired by the great explorer Richard Evans Schultes, Mark set out from Harvard on a mission to find a new treatment for diabetes, the disease that killed his two grandmothers. He is an ethnobotanist, a scientist who studies the relationship between indigenous people and plants. Mark Plotkin, a committed and passionate conservationist, has vowed to save this forest, acre by acre.įor more than twenty years Mark has searched the Amazon for plants that heal. Standing outside the treasury door with a torch in its hand, hungry for land, gold, and Of which could one day yield cures for our most troubling illnesses. Unknown dimension-the chemically rich and diverse plant life of the forest-the secrets Here in the vast canopy of trees is a treasure of Here are remote tribes of Amerindians, eighteenth century African villages, andįorest people living in the Stone Age. With voices of lonely women, where fire-feathered birds screech and click in a thicket of Here is theĪmazon of legend, where men become jaguars, where frogs cry along the riverbanks Narrated by Academy Award® winner Susan Sarandon.ĭeep in the rain forests of the Amazon, an ethnobotanist searches for new medicines.ĭeep in the jungles of Suriname, Dr. ![]()
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