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Iboga: The Visionary Root of African Shamanism
by Vicent Ravalec, Mellendi, and Agnès Paicheler
Publisher:
Park Street Press 
Year:
2004 (hardcover), 2007 (paperback) 
Reviewed by Lux
11/20/2008

an uneven book that makes a heroic effort to describe the potent psychedelic entheogen from many points of view. It describes the use of this plant by the Bwiti tradition of West Central Africa from its earliest recorded history in the nineteenth century through the present day. [ read more ]