The Lost Amazon : The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes

by Wade Davis

Book Overview

A stunning visual tribute to the greatest Amazonian explorer and ethnobotanist of the twentieth century. In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a semester's leave of absence from Harvard and disappeared into the Northwest Amazon of Colombia. Twelve years later he returned, having gone places no outsider had been: mapping uncharted rivers and living among two dozen Indian tribes while collecting some thirty thousand botanical specimens, including two...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553650786
• ISBN13: 9781553650782
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre, Limited
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.8" x 11.4"