Image via Wikipedia I read Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice when I was 14. I loved it. Mark Plotkin's recounting of the years he spent in the rainforest talking to indigenous people and learning what plants cured what diseases made me want to run off to the rainforest and do the same thing. Then I discovered that I don't really like being muddy and tired and eaten half alive by bugs. I do still find ethnobotany fascinating, though, and was thrilled when I received One River by Wade Davis as a g
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Plant lover, cookie monster, shoe fiend.