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The Serpent and the Rainbow

Paperback • 1997 • English

The Serpent and the Rainbow

By Wade Davis

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About the book

A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist. In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis—people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context wit...Show more

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ISBN

9780684839295

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Published year

1997

Language

English

Original title

The Serpent and the Rainbow

Format

Paperback

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