Cover of The Lost Amazon

Book 2004

The Lost Amazon

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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Language
English
Published
2004
  • Plants
  • South American Indians
  • Indians of South America
  • Ethnobotany
  • Photograph collections
  • Pictorial works
  • Amazon River Region
  • Photography

In the early 1970s, a time of few heroes, one man loomed large over the Harvard campus: Richard Evans Schultes, a kindly professor who shot blowguns in class and at one time kept outside his office door a bucket of peyote buttons, available to his students as an optional laboratory experiment.