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The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of Northwest Amazonia, by Richard Evans Schultes & Robert F. Raffauf, with a Foreword by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. (Historical, Ethno- and Economic Botany Series, Vol. 2.) Dioscorides Press (an imprint of Timber Press Inc.), 9999 SW Wilshire, Portland, Oregon 97225, USA: 500 pp., 136 b/w photos etc., 18.75 × 26.25 × 4 cm, hardbound, US $59.95 plus US $3 for shipping and handling for first book, US $2 for each additional copy, 1990.

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The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of Northwest Amazonia, by Richard Evans Schultes & Robert F. Raffauf, with a Foreword by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. (Historical, Ethno- and Economic Botany Series, Vol. 2.) Dioscorides Press (an imprint of Timber Press Inc.), 9999 SW Wilshire, Portland, Oregon 97225, USA: 500 pp., 136 b/w photos etc., 18.75 × 26.25 × 4 cm, hardbound, US $59.95 plus US $3 for shipping and handling for first book, US $2 for each additional copy, 1990.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Timothy Peck
Timothy Peck
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ECE/FAO Agriculture and Timber Division, Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland.
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1990 , pp. 284 - 285
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

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* We already have such coverage in the paper by Professors Nigel J.H. Smith & Richard Evans Schultes entitled ‘Deforestation and Shrinking Crop Gene-pools in Amazonia’, published on pages 227–34 of our present issue, and appropriately following the same Authors' Guest Editorial entitled ‘Amazonia's Rich Storehouse of Genes Vital for Improving Food and Cash Crops’, published in our preceding issue (Environmental Conservation, 17 (2), pp. 103–4 with 4 figs and table, Summer 1990).—Ed.Google Scholar