Mark J. Plotkin is an ethnobotanist and a plant explorer in the Neotropics, where he is an expert on rainforest ecosystems. He is co-founder and CEO of the Amazon Conservation Team.
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A Storied Path: On Mark Plotkin’s “The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know”
Gary Paul Nabhan delights in the stories gathered in conservationist Mark J. Plotkin’s new book....

Suicide Missions
Historian Michael D. Gordin reviews several books in order to tackle the problem of deferred solutions — the fact that we seem rigged to defer suffering....
