Description: The unrivaled and comprehensive guide to the healing and other useful plants of Belize, containing over 900 species accounts, 600 illustrations, and detailed discussion of the medicinal and other traditional applications of local plants, collected through a unique partnership with traditional healers and bushmasters.
Review Quotes: 2016 Klinger Book Award Finalist.
"Over the course of more than 25 years, Michael Balick and Rosita Arvigo have forged one of the most significant partnerships in the history of ethnobotany. This splendid book, the culmination of their collaboration, will live on as the definitive text on the traditional uses of plants in Belize for generations."--Wade Davis, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology and LEEF Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk, University of British Columbia.Featured in The Quarterly Review of Biology.