1 Science Park
Boston, Massachusetts 02114

Follow the Amazon River from its source in the high Andes, through the rain forest, and into the majestic Amazon basin. Join an American scientist and a native medicine man on their parallel quests to find healing plants. Dr. Mark Plotkin is a real-life ethnobotanist, a scientist who studies cultures and plants. As Plotkin travels upriver, a fictional shaman named Julio Mamani descends from the Andes. Both the scientist and the traditional Indian shaman contribute to finding medicinal plants that may yield cures for disease.

Added by Upcoming Robot on July 23, 2009