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Clouded Leopard [electronic resource] : Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire.
Wade Davis has been called 'a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life's diversity?' Driven by the desire to discover new plants for healing and visions, as well as to learn about other ways of knowing the wild, he journeys from the rain forests of Borneo to the mountains of Tibet, from the ice floes of the Arctic to the sands of the Sahara. Along the way, Davis samples the first hallucinogen from the animal kingdom, searches for the legendary clouded leopard and reveals the dimensions of a potential worldwide economic disaster involving rubber, "the w.
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- ISBN: 9781926706719
- ISBN: 1926706714
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 pages)
- Publisher: New York : Douglas & McIntyre, 2008.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Acknowledgements; Introduction; Cactus of the Four Winds; Hunters of the Northern Ice; Passion in the Desert; Dreams of a Jade Forest; The Clouded Leopard; The White Darkness; The Sheltering Sky; The Forests of Amazonia; White Blood of the Forest; The Art of Shamanic Healing; Plants of the Gods; Smoking Toad; Breaking Trail; In the Shadow of Red Cedar; The End of the Wild. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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