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Oaxaca journal
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- Summary
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Ferns are what lured the author to Oaxaca, but he weaves the strands of biology, history, and culture into a tapestry of Mexico and a group of fern-seekers united in a common passion.
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- Creator
- Oliver Sacks
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xv, 159 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0792265211, 9780792265214, 9780307947444, 0307947440
- OCLC
- ocm48466918
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Flying to Mexico -- Paleozoic plants and a ferny childhood -- A society of amateurs -- First view of Oaxaca city -- A short history of tobacco -- Santo Domingo and its garden of triffids -- Chilies, spices, and chocolate -- The last of the wild avocados -- The marketplace, from sapotes to fluorescent minerals -- Setting out for the Llano de las Flores -- Life cycle of ferns -- Morning glory and other New World hallucinogens -- A first meeting with Boone -- Ferning -- Legumes, alders, and nitrogen-fixing -- Beautiful and dangerous bracken -- Sudden altitude sickness -- The Tule tree -- Early Mesoamerican settlement -- The ruins of Yagul -- Resurrection ferns -- The euphonious sulfides of arsenic -- The zocalo -- Two-dimensional physicists -- A fusion of cultures -- The mineral springs and petrified falls -- The strange death of Georgi Markov -- Plants of the Oaxaca Valley -- Luis's history of Mexico after the Conquest -- The civilization of Monte Albán -- Divine mathematics -- An encounter with the police -- Boone's casita -- Passionflowers and hummingbirds -- Giant horsetails and tales of Calamites -- Boone's corn -- A rare endemic Llavea -- A museum and library of pre-Hispanic artifacts -- The paradoxes of pre-Columbian cultures -- A final ferning expedition