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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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Other segments from the episode on March 10, 1995

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, March 10, 1995: Interview with Richard Preston; Interview with Mark Plotkin; Review of Bobby Bland's albums "Turn on Your Love Light" and "I Pity the Fool."

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