Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi Across Hemispheres

A whirlwind journey through fungus frontiers that underscores how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet's...
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Author: Alison Pouliot
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Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi Across Hemispheres by Pouliot, Alison

Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi Across Hemispheres

$58.90

Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi Across Hemispheres

$58.90
Author: Alison Pouliot
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A whirlwind journey through fungus frontiers that underscores how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet's power and fragility.

What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Splitting time between the northern and southern hemispheres, ecologist Alison Pouliot ensures that she experiences two autumns per year in the pursuit of fungi--from Australia's deserts to Iceland's glaciers to America's Cascade Mountains. In Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms, we journey alongside Pouliot, magnifiers in hand, as she travels the world.

With Pouliot as our guide, we smell fire-loving truffles that transform their scent after burning to lure mammals who eat them and, ultimately, spread their spores. We spot the eerie glow of the ghost fungus, a deceptive entity that looks like an edible oyster mushroom but will soon heave back out--along with everything else in your stomach--if you take a bite. And we crawl alongside vegetable caterpillars, which are neither vegetable nor caterpillar but a fungus that devours insects from the inside out.

Featuring stunning color photographs of these mycological miracles, Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms shows that understanding fungi is fundamental for harmonizing with the natural world.



Author: Alison Pouliot
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 09/05/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.76h x 5.95w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780226829630


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/24/2023

About the Author
Alison Pouliot is an ecologist and photographer with a passion for fungi.

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