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HerbalEGram: Volume 7, Number 8, August 2010
August Featured Book Excerpt
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Ethnobotany of Pohnpei: Plants, People, and Island Culture, is compiled and edited by Michael J. Balick and published in 2009 by the University of Hawai'i Press in association with The New York Botanical Garden.  Softcover; 590 pages, 387 color illustrations. $28.00.
The island of Pohnpei, one of the 4 islands of the Federated States of Micronesia, has a very strong traditional culture and biodiversity. The book, Ethnobotany of Pohnpei, discusses the island's plant life and traditional medicine system and is the result of 10 years of collaborative research by a team of local people and international specialists. Contributors include: Kiped Albert, Michael J. Balick, Jeff Daniells, Lois Englberger, Timothy
Flynn, Wayne Law, Roberta A. Lee, Dana Lee Ling, Amy Levendusky, David
H. Lorence, Adelino Lorens, Jackson Phillip, Diane Ragone, Bill Raynor.
An excerpt of Ethnobotany of Pohnpei is available here, and includes the book's title page, table of contents, preface written by Michael J. Balick, and Chapter Six, "The Sacred Root: Sakau en Pohnpei," written by Dr. Balick and Roberta A. Lee.
The book may be purchased from the ABC Online Store.
©2010 University of Hawai'i Press.
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