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Richard Evans Schultes

Richard Evans Schultes

Spent twelve years in the Amazon between 1941 and 1953 collecting over 24,000 plant specimens and cataloguing the indigenous use of sacred plants. Director of Harvard's Botanical Museum, he founded the field of ethnobotany as a serious discipline.

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Plants of the Gods

The classic ethnobotanical guide to psychoactive plants used in ritual and healing worldwide.

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