An edition of The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic (1985)

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An edition of The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic (1985)

The serpent and the rainbow

by

  • ★★★★★ 5.0 (2 ratings) ·
  • 75 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

A Harvard scientist's astonishing journey into the secret societies of Haitian voodoo, zombis, and magic.

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Publisher
Warner Books
Language
English
Pages
371

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Subjects

Social life and customs, Description and travel, Zombiism, Bizango (Cult), Religious life and customs, Pharmacopoeias, Tetrodotoxin, Physiological effect, Datura stramonium, Voodooism, Travel, Manners and customs, Religion and Medicine, Pharmacology, Culture, Bizango (Culte), Zombis, Vie religieuse, Moeurs et coutumes, Descriptions et voyages, Histoire, Tétrodotoxine, Effets physiologiques, Pharmacopées, Droge, Wodu, Voodoo, Zombi, Datura, Haiti, social life and customs, History

People

Wade Davis

Places

Haiti

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Cover of: Serpent and the Rainbow
Serpent and the Rainbow
2010, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
in English
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Cover of: The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic
August 5, 1997, Simon & Schuster
Paperback in English
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Cover of: Serpent and the Rainbow
Serpent and the Rainbow
October 1994, Time Warner International
in English
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Cover of: Serpent and the Rainbow
Serpent and the Rainbow
June 20, 1988, Random House Value Publishing
Hardcover in English
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The serpent and the rainbow
1987, Warner Books
in English
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The Serpent and the rainbow.
1987, Fontana / Collins
in English
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The serpent and the rainbow
1986, Collins
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The serpent and the rainbow
1986, Stoddart
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The serpent and the rainbow
1985, Simon and Schuster
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The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Society of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis and Magic by Wade Davis
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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 339-355.

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New York
Series
Warner Books nonfiction

Classifications

Library of Congress
BL2530.H3 D38 1987

The Physical Object

Pagination
371 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
371

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22358940M
Internet Archive
serpentrainbow00davi
ISBN 10
0446343870, 0446343889
OCLC/WorldCat
1041786212
Library Thing
57112
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376342

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First Sentence

"MY FIRST MEETING with the man who would send me on my quest for the Haitian poison occurred on a damp miserable winter's day in late February 1974."

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