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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brussell, David Eric. Potions, poisons and panaceas : an ethnobotanical study of Montserrat / foreword by Richard Evans Schultes ; preface by J.-P. Theurillat. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997. Hardback, VG, in unclipped dustjacket with very light shelfwear. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. Yellow endpapers. xvi, 176pp., colour and b/w photographs, maps. Contents clean and bright. Landscape format, 23.5cm x 18.5cm approx. In this complete ethnobotanical study of the flora of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, David Eric Brussell provides an engaging scientific catalogue that is rich in information about the plants and the integral part they play in Caribbean culture, economy, history, and folklore. Including twenty-four color plates and fifty-two black-and-white photographs, this book contains an exhaustive list of 378 botanical entries, featuring 282 species of ethnobotanically important plants and representing seventy-eight families. Recent eruptions of the Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat have made the data collected for this book especially important. After summarizing previous botanical research on the flora of Montserrat - particularly that conducted by early scientists and explorers - Brussell describes his own collecting methodology and looks at the significance of the area's geography, climate, vegetation, and history. His extensive catalogue of the plants and their uses makes up the major portion of the book. The appendix includes a listing of all the collected plants as well as Brussell's field collection records. As a result of his assimilation into the culture and his extensive interviews with the West Indian people, he was able to observe their myriad uses of the plants in voodoo rituals and practices, and as medicines and foodstuffs. Some plant species are also used as aphrodisiacs and poisons, insecticides and insect repellents, dyes, building materials, and industrial chemicals. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1997.Hardcover.Very good,very good.Inscribed and signed by the author.176 pages.Ships from Japan.Usually ships in 1-2 working days. Inscribed by Author(s).

176pp. 1st ed., clean in D/W.

24 pp.; 44.9 x 29.5 cm.; loose leaves; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; April 19 - 25, 1974 issue of Berkeley Barb, edited by David Armstrong. Contents include: "Is SLA's Cinque the First Black Lee Harvey Oswald?," by Mae Brussell and Stephanie Caruana; "Teachers in Secret Vote Over Strike," by Avis Worthington; "Has Abbie Jumped Bail in Coke Case?," "People's Park Plan May Get Rector's Name;" "Cinque Called Police Patsy," by Sgt Pepper; "Newsman Busted;" "Coalition Makes Move: Oil Moguls Challenged," by Frederick U. Ross; "Valley Coalition Officers;" "SLA Bank Holdup Answers Some of the Questions," by Ric Reynolds; "Will Gerald Ford Survive San Jose This Weekend?;" "Gunman Suspended;" "Big 'Welcome' Planned for Nixon's Henchmen;" "Protest for Popeye;" "Inventing Diseases to Explain Away America's Violence;" "New Peralta College Plan Hits Snags," by David J. Kolsky; "PT&T CruciFiction: Old Ma Bell's Got a Hang Up," by Jennifer L. Thompson, photo by Janet Fries; "SLA Set-UP? Panther Bust Seen as Stage of Renewed Police Plot," by David Armstrong; "Charge Berkeley Agency Illegal," by Avis Worthington; "Terminal Pot Case;" "Berkeley Council Backs Harassed Trotskyist Party," by Avis Worthington; "Big Protest Demo to Throw Bum out;" "Sun Lovers Fight Atom Smashers," by Tom Plante; "Protest at Japanese Slaughter of Whales;" "Women Busted for Delivering Babies Without License;" "Computers Help Solve JFK Death;" "Psycho-Terror: How They Contract Your Consciousness," by David Armstrong; "Visitors Hassled: Hells Angel Chief Being Victimized in Folsom;" "Striking Utility Workers Seek Probe," by Avis Worthington; "Who Pays Income Tax Anyway?;" "Inquisitors Coming," by Gerry Lee-Borst; "Feminist Socialism: The Hard Core of the Dream," by Herbert Marcuse; "Kiss it All Goodbye;" "Free at Last! Tonto Gets Masked Man," by Berna Rauch; "Gleeson Synthesized," by Loren Means; "Carolee Cuts Through Light, Time and Space," Michael Reynolds on Carolee Schneeman; "Dracula is a Scream," by Berma Rauch; "Chess Barbs," by Jude Acers (U.S. Senior Master); "Sex Roles in the Sixties: Where the Girls Were At;" "Tonight as 'Conrack': A Wise Guy Liberal Crazy Stirring Up Black Kids," by Janet Fries; "Mott Lobotumizes Poet;" "New Stage, Old Story;" "Lenny Tries to Make You See the Way It Is," by Richard Casey; "Pop Culture a Little Overcooked;" "Silence Falls Over Berkeley," by Arnie Passman; "New French Movie is Real Talker," by Richard Casey and "Getting to See Miles Becoming a Hassle," Loren Means on Miles Davis. Good / Very Good. Folded in two, with light yellowing of covers and pages with light edge-wear, bumping, folding and small tearing throughout including 2.7 cm. loss to top right corner of recto and 4 mm. tear to page 3. 1 cm. tearing and loss to bottom left corner of publication. Additional small tearing to page edges with some bumping. Contents are clean and unmarked.