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Fungipedia - A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore written by Lawrence Millman performed by Al Kessel and on MP3 CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9781618035547
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Nature
Duration:  330 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Lawrence Millman
Narrator 1:  Al Kessel
Rarity:  Extremely Rare

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An illustrated mini-encyclopedia of fungal lore, from John Cage and Terrence McKenna to mushroom sex and fairy rings. Fungipedia presents a delightful A-Z treasury of mushroom lore. With more than 180 entries - on topics as varied as Alice in Wonderland, chestnut blight, medicinal mushrooms, poisonings...

Santa Claus, and waxy caps - this collection will transport both general listeners and specialists into the remarkable universe of fungi.

Combining ecological, ethnographic, historical, and contemporary knowledge, author and mycologist Lawrence Millman discusses how mushrooms are much more closely related to humans than to plants, how they engage in sex, how insects farm them, and how certain species happily dine on leftover radiation, cockroach antennae, and dung.

He explores the lives of individuals like African-American scientist George Washington Carver, who specialized in crop diseases caused by fungi; Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, who was prevented from becoming a professional mycologist because she was a woman; and Gordon Wasson, a J. P. Morgan vice-president who almost single-handedly introduced the world to magic mushrooms.

Millman considers why fungi are among the most significant organisms on our planet and how they are currently being

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