Book ID: 93859
Yetman, David A.
The Great Cacti. Ethnobotany and Biogeography. 2007. 336 col. photogr., 17 maps. X, 320 p. 4to. Hardcover.
The Great Cacti reviews the more than one hundred speciesof columnar cacti, with detailed discussions of some 75 that have been the most beneficial to humans or are most spectacular. Focusing particularly on northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States, the author examines the role of each species in human society, describing how cacti have provided food, shelter, medicine, even religiously significant hallucinogens.