“As my plane from Lima noses through layers of mist, I encounter a leafy emerald ocean stretching from horizon to horizon. A silty brown river coils through it like a fat anaconda, its glistening loops so closely packed you could sail it for a day and gain only a few miles as the condor flies. It’s an awesome sight…yet for me this wondrous, green-and-brown land is just the portal to an even vaster, more mysterious universe – a world of myth, magic and medicine known intimately to the Amazonian shamans I’ve come thousands of miles to seek. Though it isn’t unusual for me to travel solo to exotic places, one aspect of this trip distinguishes it from all others: I wish to drink ayahuasca,  a highly visionary, psychoactive medicine whose name means the vine of the dead.”
The Green Labyrinth
Exploring the Mysteries
of the Amazon

Thomas Allen Publishers
340 pages, $34.95
Available at Canadian bookstores
or online at www.indigo.ca
"Fraser seamlessly combines the factual and the personal with a style that makes the work intriguing: rather than seeking to 'find herself' or write a treatise on healing, Fraser wants to see what adventures will come her way if she keeps an open mind..."
Quill & Quire