Ruiz spent 11 years exploring the villages and botanical landscapes of Peru and Chile. His journals contain detailed, personal observations of about 2000 plants, along with his impressions of the culture and perils of exploration in South America.
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Original Language: Spanish
Original Language: Spanish
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Ruiz spent 11 years exploring the villages and botanical landscapes of Peru and Chile. His journals contain detailed, personal observations of about 2000 plants, along with his impressions of the culture and perils of exploration in South America.
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An extraordinary ethnobotanical adventure in the 1700's,
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This review is from: The Journals of Hippolito Ruiz: Spanish Botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777-1788 (Hardcover)
If you like plants and the ethnobotanical uses of them (like I do), along with exploration and adventure, then this book is for you. Hipolito Ruiz was a Spanish botanist in Peru and Chile from 1777-1788. Along with all the many hardships which he encountered back in those days, he observed and recorded the many different kinds of medicinal and non-medicinal plants which the natives used. It truly is a fascinating account of his travels and what it was actually like in the 1700's. Along with being an adventure in ethnobotanical exploration , it is also a cultural portrayal of the peoples who lived there. I also enjoyed the appendix at the end of the book which lists the medicinal plants in alphabetical order which are mentioned in the text. Maybe this book should be required reading for medical students (?). Could be a cure for cancer, aides, etc. down there (!)
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On the 19th of September 1777 we-the five persons named-left Madrid for Cadiz. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bark gatherers, hoja morada, few dorados, many flying fish, quina bark, quinine tree, quinine bark, stout trunk, mule drivers, tallow tree Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Pedro, Don Juan, Villa de Tarma, San Francisco, Santo Domingo, Courtesy of the British Museum, Ministry of the Indies, San Matheo, Biobio River, Don Francisco, Santa Rosa, Buenos Aires, Cerro de Yauricocha, San Agustin, San Juan de Dios, San Fernando, San Lorenzo, Santa Maria, South America, Mapocho River, Royal Botanic Garden, Santiago de Chile, Eusebio Sanz, Pari River, Santa Ana New!
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On the 19th of September 1777 we-the five persons named-left Madrid for Cadiz. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bark gatherers, hoja morada, few dorados, many flying fish, quina bark, quinine tree, quinine bark, stout trunk, mule drivers, tallow tree Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Pedro, Don Juan, Villa de Tarma, San Francisco, Santo Domingo, Courtesy of the British Museum, Ministry of the Indies, San Matheo, Biobio River, Don Francisco, Santa Rosa, Buenos Aires, Cerro de Yauricocha, San Agustin, San Juan de Dios, San Fernando, San Lorenzo, Santa Maria, South America, Mapocho River, Royal Botanic Garden, Santiago de Chile, Eusebio Sanz, Pari River, Santa Ana New!
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