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Plants of the Galapagos Islands, by Eileen Schofield. Health Staying Healthy in Asia, Africa & Latin America (Moon Publications). One of the best to carry. Traveler's Health, by Dr. Richard Dawood (Random House). Easy to read, recommended but very large to carry. Shamanism Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, by Mark J. Plotkin, Ph.D., (Penguin Books). An Ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest. The Way of the Shaman, by Michael Harner, (Bantam). Focuses on Shamanic practices and beliefs of the Shaur Indians of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Hallucinations and Shamanism, edited by Michael Harner, (Oxford Univ. Press). An excellent compilation of Shamanic practice and Ayahuasca use. Wizard of the Upper Amazon, by F. Bruce Lamb, (Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston). Account of life among So. Amer. jungle indians who use the hallucinogenic vine, ayahuasca, for healing. Rio Tigre and Beyond, by F. Bruce Lamb, (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley). More about Amazon jungle medicine. Amazon Beaming, by Petru Popescu, (Penguin). An exploration of native jungle telepathic way of life. Healing States, by Alberto Villoldo and Stanley Krippner, (Simon & Schuster, NY). A journey into the world of spiritual healing and shamanism. Visionary Vine, by Marlene Dobkin de Rios, (Waveland Press). Hallucinogenic healing in the Peruvian Amazon. Voices from the Amazon, by Binka Le Breton, (Kumarian Press, W. Hartford, CT). Insight into human and environmental issues of Amazonia. True Hallucinations, by Terrence McKenna, (Harper San Francisco). An account of time spent with Amazon Shamans in pursuit of hallucinogenic experiences. Shamanic Voices, by Joan Halifax, Ph.D., (E.P. Dutton, NY). A survey of worldwide shamanic insights, with a section on South America. The Yage Letters, by William Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg, (City Lights Books, San Francisco; probably out of print). A Classic '60s account of the correspondence of these two greats while visiting a "witch doctor" in the Colombian Amazon and eating Yage (ayahuasca). |