Tales of Shaman’s Apprentice Book Review Name of Student Institution Lecture Due Date Tales of Sham’s Apprentice Book Review This review is for the book “TALES OF SHAMAN’S APPRENTICE “, by Mark Plotkin. The historical approach of pharmaceutical companies began with the appreciation of the existing traditional knowledge. They needed to know more about different types of plants as well as their uses to make medicines. However, in the 1930s, they took a new path with the advent of the synthetic chemistry.