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Wade Davis : The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes
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Author: Wade Davis
Title: The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes
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Published in: English
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 204
Date: 2004-10-01
ISBN: 0811845710
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Weight: 3.2 pounds
Size: 11.0 x 11.3 x 1.1 inches
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Richard Evans Schultes (1915-2001) was probably the greatest explorer of the Amazon, and regarded among anthropologists and seekers alike as the "father of ethnobotany." Taking what was meant to be a short leave from Harvard in 1941, he surveyed the Amazon basin almost continuously for twelve years, during which time he lived among two dozen different Indian tribes, mapped rivers, secretly sought sources of rubber for the US government during WWII, and collected and classified 30,000 botanical specimens, including 2,000 new medicinal plants. Schultes chronicled his stay there in hundreds of remarkable photographs of the tribes and the land, evocative of the great documentary photographers such as Edward Sheriff Curtis. Published to coincide with a traveling exhibition to debut at the Govinda Gallery in Washington, D.C., The Lost Amazon is the first major publication to examine the work of Dr. Schultes, as seen through his photographs and field notes. With text by Schultes's protege and fellow explorer, Wade Davis, this impressive document takes armchair travelers where they've never gone before.
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