The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise Of Drug-Resistant Bacteria

By Mark J. Plotkin, Michael Shnayerson

Tales Of A Shaman'S Apprentice

By Mark J. Plotkin, Mark Plotkin

For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more tha...

Medicine Quest

By Mark J. Plotkin

From the freezing Arctic to steamy rainforests, Plotkin explores mankind's search for new medicines.

The Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest

By Lynne Cherry, Mark J. Plotkin

Kamanya believes in the shaman's wisdom about the healing properties of plants found in the Amazon rain forest and hopes one day to be a healer for his people.

Shaman s Apprentice

By Mark J. Plotkin

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest

By Mark J. Plotkin

"Fascinating and highly readable account of an ethnobotanist's research on medicinal plants and hallucinogens among the Trio and Oyana of Suriname/Brazil and the Yanomamo of Venezuela. In view of t...

Tales of a Shaman s Apprentice

By Mark J. Plotkin

Lonely Planet South America on a Shoestring On a Shoestring

By James Lyon, Andrew Draffen, Krzysztof Dydynski, Mark Plotkin, Conner Gorry

Tales of a Shaman s Apprentice

By Mark J. Plotkin

Sustainable harvest and marketing of rain forest products

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