One River

by Wade Davis

Book Overview

The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America--Richard Evans Schultes and his prot g Wade Davis--an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684834960
• ISBN13: 9780684834962
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"