Shamans Through Time
Publisher: Frieze
Published: April 2004
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780500283271
Subjects: Shamanism; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; New Age
First sentence: In the early sixteenth century, Spanish navigator and natural historian Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo described old men using tobacco to communicate with spirits among the indigenous inhabitants of Hispaniola (the island currently comprising Haiti and the Dominican Republic).