New York: William H. Morrow, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller set in the jungles of Amazon - Four years after an expedition to the interior of the jungle had been declared lost, a man "stumbles into a small missionary village, and within hours of the CIA operative and former special forces soldier - tongueless, scarred, his eyes wide with terror - is dead. But the most disturbing aspect of Agent Gerald Clark's death has his superiors in Washington baffled. When Agent Clark first came to the Amazon, he had only one arm - the result of a well-paced sniper's bullet. But the photograph of him submitted by a Brazilian morgue shows a corpse with two upper limbs fully intact." An expedition is quickly formed with the US government, Army rangers, a drug company and Nathan Rand, ethnobotanist and the son of the leader of the lost expedition. However, the stakes quickly mount - Clark brought a rapidly spreading and fatal disease with him and now a cure is urgently needed - and the expedition not only has to confront the dangers of the jungle - they are being tracked by a ruthless band of mercenaries. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-060002484.

New York: William H. Morrow, (2002). SIGNED first edition - A thriller set in the jungles of Amazon - Four years after an expedition to the interior of the jungle had been declared lost, a man "stumbles into a small missionary village, and within hours of the CIA operative and former special forces soldier - tongueless, scarred, his eyes wide with terror - is dead. But the most disturbing aspect of Agent Gerald Clark's death has his superiors in Washington baffled. When Agent Clark first came to the Amazon, he had only one arm - the result of a well-paced sniper's bullet. But the photograph of him submitted by a Brazilian morgue shows a corpse with two upper limbs fully intact." An expedition is quickly formed with the US government, Army rangers, a drug company and Nathan Rand, ethnobotanist and the son of the leader of the lost expedition. However, the stakes quickly mount - Clark brought a rapidly spreading and fatal disease with him and now a cure is urgently needed - and the expedition not only has to confront the dangers of the jungle - they are being tracked by a ruthless band of mercenaries. SIGNED on the title page. 420 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - An attractive copy of this scarce book, the only novel by Rosa, acclaimed as both the greatest Brazilian novel, and as one of the 100 best books of all time. The long and complex story is told in one continuous narrative, with no chapter breaks, by Ribaldo, now an old man and a rancher, but formerly a bandit in the impoverished high altitude wetlands of the Sertao region. Originally published in Brazil in 1963 under the title "Grande Sertao: Veredas" and here translated from the Portuguese by James L. Taylor and Harriet de Onis. Introduction by Jorge Amado in which he calls this "one of the greatest books our literature has produced. . brutal, tender, cordial, savage, vast as Brazil itself." Includes a glossary of Brazilian terms. x, 494 pp.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1978, the responded to increased interest in medicinal plants by convening a series of international consultations, seminars, and symposia to explore and promote the use of medicinal plants. Medicinal Plants presents the proceedings of a symposium convened by the World Health Organization in 1993. It presents an overview of the use of medicinal plants that includes a discussion of a variety of issues - scientific, economic, regulatory, agricultural, cultural - focused on the importance of medicinal plants to primary health care and global health care reform - with specific papers on ethnopharmacology and tropical forests in Belize, the role of botanical gardens, the uses of plants in primary care in Indonesia, traditional medicine in China and Korea, and much more. References at the end of each paper. Illustrated with botanical drawings. Index. xi, 221 pp. ISBN: 0-812234316.