Prance presents students, academics, botanists, and professionals in a wide variety of fields with a history of his fieldwork collecting, pressing, and drying plants toward an inventory of the flora of the Amazon rainforest. The author’s text is organized in seventeen chronological chapters, beginning with his first rainforest expedition to Suriname in 1963, detailing his work in Brazil, on the Rio Pacaj, the Roraima Territory, and a variety of other locations throughout the Amazon basin. The text concludes with the author’s thoughts on the future of his field, and the future of the Amazon, as it is threatened by illegal mining, timber exploitation, and deforestation. Ghillean T. Prance is a retired academic, author, and botanist. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc. , Portland, OR (protoview. com)