Carribbean Herbalism
traditional wisdom and modern herbal healing
$38.07
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
17 June 2025
Summary
Caribbean Herbalism: A Tapestry of Plants and People
For millennia, people have utilized plants as foods, medicines, hallucinogens, clothing, shelter, perfumes, dyes, and even poisons. In the Caribbean, medicinal and practical use of plants began with its first inhabitants, the Amerindians. New plants and knowledge were introduced through both triangular trade with Asia, Africa, and Europe and the enslavement of Africans and Indians from Southeast Asia, culminating in the modern-day…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781646048168 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1646048164 |
| Series: | Herbalism |
| Author: | Aleya Fraser |
| Publisher: | Ulysses Press |
| Imprint: | Ulysses Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 17 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Aleya Fraser
Aleya Fraser is a land steward and ethnobotanist with a strong lineage of land-based people. She has spent the last 12 years managing and founding farms and deepening her herbal knowledge through communing with elders, practice, and scientific research. Aleya uses her bachelor’s degree in physiology and neurobiology as well as the ancestral wisdom in her fingertips to guide her studies and research interests. She blends her upbringing in Maryland with a strong focus on Trinidadian roots in her writings. She is considered a pollinator of people and weaver of landscapes.
Aleya also managed and cofounded farms in Baltimore City, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in Northwest Virginia, and now, in her ancestral lands of Trinidad and Tobago, where she lives with her husband and daughter.
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