Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany (Scientific American Library)
Balick and Cox have combined their own ethnobotanical expertise with documented accounts to produce a beautifully illustrated introduction to this increasingly popular topic.  The final book is not only readable and fascinating, but also thought-provoking and ultimately moving.  --The Geographical Journal, 3/98This is a fascinating integration of chemistry, botany, anthropology, history and ecology...This is an inspiring book that deserves to be read by anyone interested in conservation, ethnomedicine, and indigenous peoples.  --Kliatt, January, 1998Two leading ethnobotanists argue that human cultural origins are woven with  plants: examining the prehistoric use and gathering of plants by hunter-gatherers to modern  times, this examines important connections between indigenous peoples' development and concurrent  plant discoveries.  --Midwest Book Review