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100 1 $aSacks, Oliver,$d1933-2015.
245 10 $aOaxaca journal /$cOliver Sacks.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bNational Geographic Society ;$aEnfield :$bHi Marketing [distributor],$c2005.
300 $a159 pages ;$c22 cm.
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490 1 $aNational Geographic directions
500 $aOriginally published: 2002.
505 0 $aFlying 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 Alba n -- 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.
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830 0 $aNational Geographic directions.
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