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The book weaves together two primary journeys: the 1940s Amazonian explorations of legendary Harvard ethnobotanist and the 1970s trek by his students, Wade Davis and Tim Plowman , to unravel the mystery of the coca leaf. Key Themes & Insights

Wade Davis’s One River is more than a biography or a scientific travelogue; it is an elegy for the ethnosphere—the sum total of all cultural knowledge and spiritual beliefs. One river : explorations and discoveries in the...

The book challenges the idea of the "primitive." Davis shows that indigenous botanical knowledge—such as knowing exactly which two unrelated plants to combine to create the complex chemistry of ayahuasca—is a sophisticated science developed over millennia of trial and observation. The book weaves together two primary journeys: the