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Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin

Plotkin wrote a book about what he learned about botany and medicine from the medicine men of the tropical rain forests. It's called Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest, and is now out in paperback. (Rebroadcast)

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Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin. He has a new book about what he learned about botany and medicine from the Medicine Men of the tropical rain forests. His new book is "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice," published by Viking. (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)

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