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- Title The Cosmic Serpent
- Author Jeremy Narby
- Binding Papeback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Condition New
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books , Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
- Date pp. 272
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 61005360
- ISBN 9780874779646 / 0874779642
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.51 x 0.73 in (20.35 x 14.00 x 1.85 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Library of Congress subjects DNA, Molecular biology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97036344
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.089
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Summary
This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune said might herald "a Copernican revolution for the life sciences," leads the reader through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge. In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that opens new perspectives on biology, anthropology, and the limits of rationalism, The Cosmic Serpent reveals how startlingly different the world around us appears when we open our minds to it.
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First line
The first time an Ashaninca man told me that he had learned the medicinal properties of plants by drinking a hallucinogenic brew, I thought he was joking.