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Ethnobotanist MARK PLOTKIN

Fresh Air
Published March 9, 1995 at 10:00 PM MST

2: Ethnobotanist MARK PLOTKIN. He wrote a book about what he learned about botany and medicine from the Medicine Men of the tropical rain forests. His book is Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest (Viking). The book was issued in paper back 8/94 by Penguin Books.(Aired 9

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