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briansethparker's review
4.0
Ugh. Why did Schultes have to get stuck with Wade Davis as his biographer? The photos are beautiful. Schultes' stories always fascinating. But the use of language indicating the indigenous pertained or belonged to him, such as "a near fatal attack of malaria that forced his Indians to carry him" is shameful and nauseating to read in a book republished in 2016. Also inexcusable is Davis' continual failure to understand that no "discovery" occurs by Schultes when an indigenous shaman takes him on a hike, shows him a plant, and then tells him what its uses are.
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