Title The serpent and the rainbow / Wade Davis.

Publication Info.	New York : Simon and Schuster, [1985]
	©1985

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Location	Call No.	Status
Portland Public Library - Adult Department	299.675 DAV	Check Shelf
Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction	299.67 DAVIS	Check Shelf
Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department	299.67 DA	Check Shelf

Description	297 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Bibliography: pages 274-284.
Note	Includes index.
Contents	pt. 1. The poison. The jaguar -- "The frontier of death" -- The Calabar hypothesis -- White darkness and the living dead -- A lesson in history -- Everything is poison, nothing is poison -- pt. 2. Interlude at Harvard. Columns on a blackboard -- Voodoo death -- pt. 3. The secret societies. In summer the pilgrims walk -- The serpent and the rainbow -- Tell my horse -- Dancing in the lion's jaw -- Sweet as honey, bitter as bile -- Epilogue.
Subject	Davis, Wade.
	Zombiism -- Haiti.
	Bizango (Cult)
	Tetrodotoxin -- Physiological effect.
	Datura stramonium.
	Religion and Medicine -- Haiti.
	Culture -- Haiti.
	Tetrodotoxin -- pharmacology.
	Datura stramonium.
	Pharmacopoeias -- Haiti.
	Haiti.
	Haiti -- Description and travel.
	Haiti -- Religious life and customs.
	Haiti -- Social life and customs.
Other Form:	Online version: Davis, Wade. Serpent and the rainbow. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1985 (OCoLC)656765498
ISBN	0671502476
	9780671502478

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