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Spirit of the Rainforest
Book • 2025
In this captivating debut, Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza takes readers on an immersive journey through the Amazon rainforest, weaving together personal adventure, scientific discovery, and ancestral knowledge.
The book chronicles her treacherous encounters with the boiling river, her conservation work with stingless bees, her experience with ayahuasca, and the remarkable biodiversity of the rainforest.
Through her expeditions and collaborations with indigenous communities, Rosa demonstrates how to reconnect with the natural world by harmonizing cutting-edge science with the deep-rooted wisdom of Amazonian cultures.
The book chronicles her treacherous encounters with the boiling river, her conservation work with stingless bees, her experience with ayahuasca, and the remarkable biodiversity of the rainforest.
Through her expeditions and collaborations with indigenous communities, Rosa demonstrates how to reconnect with the natural world by harmonizing cutting-edge science with the deep-rooted wisdom of Amazonian cultures.
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Rosa Vásquez Espinoza
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Two Ways of Knowing: How Merging Science & Indigenous Wisdom Fuels New Discoveries with Rosa Vásquez Espinoza
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Oliver Parsons
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Rainforest revealed, with Dr Rosa Vasquez Espinoza
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Dan Burgess
Episode 111: We Are Avon | Listening to the River
