Davis, Wade, — One River: explorations and discoveries in the Amazon rain forest.

NY, Touchstone, (1996). 9th ptg. VG lg sz PB. Davis went to the Amazon in the wake of his professor to unveil botanical secrets of coca, the notorious cocaine, a sacred. plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality. Two generations of explorers are drawn together by transcendent knowledge of native people, visionary realms of the shamans, and the extraordinary plants that sustain all life in the forest.