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The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know
Mark Plotkin
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Mark Plotkin
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This book by Mark Plotkin has come up 2 times on Tim Ferriss. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-10-08 and the most recent from 2022-07-22. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“his most recent book is the amazon what everyone needs to know you can find my interview with mark at tim.blog mark”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Hamilton Morris and Dr. Mark Plotkin: Hamilton Morris is a chemist, filmmaker, and science journalist who writes and directs the documentary series Hamilton's Pharmacopeia. Dr. Mark Plotkin is an ethnobotanist, president of the Amazon Conservation Team, and author of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice; here he hosts and interviews Morris for his Plants of the Gods podcast. Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin interviews chemist Hamilton Morris on the history, chemistry, and conservation of psychoactive substances.
“His new book, published by Oxford Press, is The Amazon, subtitle What Everyone Needs to Know.”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Dr. Mark Plotkin: Ethnobotanist and president of the Amazon Conservation Team, which partners with 55 tribes to map and manage 80 million acres of ancestral rainforest. Educated at Harvard, Yale, and Tufts, he has spent four decades studying shamans and healing plants of tropical America and authored Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice. Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin on Amazon shamans, real vs fake healers, hallucinogens like yopo and ayahuasca, and preserving rainforest medicine.
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