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The Flying Death: Poison, Plunder, and the Quest for a Miracle Medicine in the Amazon

The Flying Death: Poison, Plunder, and the Quest for a Miracle Medicine in the Amazon

$32.00
$32.00

By: O'Hara, Matt

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026-11-10

"A dramatic tale of gentlemen-explorers of the 1930s racing to find and harvest a poisonous Amazon vine, and how their work plundered local tribes and spurred the invention of new medicines"--

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