Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2026-06-25

Tim Ferriss, Dr. Andrew Weil & Wade Davis: books mentioned on The Tim Ferriss Show #871

#871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade Davis

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"Coca is to cocaine what potatoes are to vodka" — Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade Davis on the health benefits, sacred history, and unjust prohibition of the most misunderstood plant on Earth.

Wade Davis recommended One River by Wade Davis.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. One River

    Wade Davis · at 1:14:25

    One River by Wade Davis is an account of ethnobotanical exploration in the Amazon that chronicles the adventures of Richard Evans Schultes.

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    “Yeah, I think people would be intrigued by the book One River, which is really the account of Tim and I and Koka and Schulties. It's a great book. It is a great book. That book in particular would open people's eyes.”
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Plugged One River
“and incidentally as I was reading and doing his eulogy that I conceived the book one river which is a biography of our great professor Richard Evans Schulties. We're doing this in part in memory of Tim.”