Where the Gods Reign: Plants and Peoples of the Colombian Amazon
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BACK IN STOCK DECEMBER 2022 Where the Gods Reign is a scientific and creative anthropological overview of the desertcart rainforest ecosystem-featuring writings and excerpts on rivers, ethnic groups, cultural customs, rubber and cocoa plants, drugs and medicines, and more. Beautiful photographs taken by Dr. Schultes during his 14 years residing in the Colombian desertcart are accompanied by short poetic reflections, precise summaries which showcase Schultes’s immense knowledge of the area, and carefully selected quotes from other great ethnographers of the desertcart. Review: WHERE THE GODS REIGN - It’s been helpful and educational for all my art projects Review: Return to the NW desertcart with the world pioneering ethnobotanist - Dr. Richard Schultes - I ordered this after reading Wade Davis's amazing book -the Lost desertcart-; about the same area. Dr Schultes is a world renowned Harvard Botanist who traveled widely in the desertcart searching for new medicinal plants - he spent 12 years living and working among the native people. He captured the pathos and soul of the people that lived there with his wonderful black and white images. This book is a tribute not only to this epic journey but to the author as well. Dr Schultes became a legand amoung the local tribes . A man of the outside world yet his repectful and scholarly approach won the native's repect, admiraton and even affection. Even though I'm not a botanist or anthropologist I found the adventure well worth the price of admission.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 13 Reviews |
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WHERE THE GODS REIGN
It’s been helpful and educational for all my art projects
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Return to the NW Amazon with the world pioneering ethnobotanist - Dr. Richard Schultes
I ordered this after reading Wade Davis's amazing book -the Lost Amazon-; about the same area. Dr Schultes is a world renowned Harvard Botanist who traveled widely in the Amazon searching for new medicinal plants - he spent 12 years living and working among the native people. He captured the pathos and soul of the people that lived there with his wonderful black and white images. This book is a tribute not only to this epic journey but to the author as well. Dr Schultes became a legand amoung the local tribes . A man of the outside world yet his repectful and scholarly approach won the native's repect, admiraton and even affection. Even though I'm not a botanist or anthropologist I found the adventure well worth the price of admission.
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Captivating
I originally found this book in the back of a new-age bookstore in a pile of generic "shamanist" books. To say this was a gross miscategorization would be an understatement; what is contained within these pages is not various recepies for getting high, but a massive and thoughtful photographic documentation of the ways in which the indigenous peoples of the Colombian Amazon interact with and become an integral part of their surrounding environment. A must for anyone even remotely interested in botany and/or anthropology!
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Picture Book
I just bought this book and had no idea it was a black and white picture book with minimal captions. Most of the pictures of natives , streams, rocks, huts, etc. were'nt even taken by Schultes. I thought I was buying Richard Schultes findings about "plants and peoples of the Columbian Amazon" as the cover states. huge disappointment
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