Format:
1 online resource (226 pages)
ISBN:
9781603582803
Content:
Throughout history, people have had a complex and confusing relationship with mushrooms. Are fungi food or medicine, beneficial decomposers or deadly "toadstools" ready to kill anyone foolhardy enough to eat them? In Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares, author Greg Marley reveals some of the wonders and mysteries of mushrooms, and our conflicting human reactions to them.
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Tales from the Forest Floor -- Part I. Mushrooms and Culture -- 1. Passionate about Mushrooms: The Russian and Slavic Experience -- 2. Overcoming Distrust: Mushrooming in America -- Part II. Mushrooms as Food -- Introduction: Leading with Our Stomachs -- 3. The Foolproof Four: Updated for a New Millennium -- 4. Chanterelles -- 5. Boletus edulis -- 6. The Agaricus Brothers -- Part III. Dangerously Toxic, Deadly Interesting -- Introduction: Poisonous Mushrooms: Not as Bad as you Fear -- 7. Mushroom Poisoning: The Potential Risks and Ways to Avoid them -- 8. Amanita Nightmares: The Death Cap and Destroying Angel -- 9. False Morels: The Finnish Fugu -- 10. A Fallen Angel -- 11. The Poison Pax: A Deadly Mystery -- Part IV. Mushrooms and the Mind: The Origin of Religion and the Pathway to Enlightenment -- Introduction: Entheogens: A New Way to View Hallucinogenic Mushrooms -- 12. Amanita muscaria: Soma, Religion, and Santa -- 13. Psilocybin: Gateway to the Soul or Just a Good High? -- Part V. Mushrooms within Living Ecosystems -- 14. Honey Mushrooms: The Race for the World's Largest Fungus -- 15. Fairy Rings and Fairy Tales -- 16. Fungal Bioluminescence: Mushroom Nightlights -- 17. Who's Eating the Truffles? -- 18. Woodpeckers, Wood Decay Fungi, and Forest Health -- VI. Tools for a New World -- 19. Growing Mushrooms in the Garden: A How-to Story -- Appendix of Recommended and Supplemental Reading -- Endnotes.
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Additional Edition:
9781603582148
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781603582148
Language:
English
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