Mushroom
$22.43
- Paperback
152 pages
- Release Date
8 March 2023
Summary
Mushroom: A Wondrous Object
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They are symbols of inexplicable growth and excruciating misery. They are grouped with plants, but they behave more like animals. In their inscrutability, mushrooms are wondrous organisms.
The mushroom is an ordinary object whose encounters with humans…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501386589 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1501386581 |
| Series: | Object Lessons |
| Author: | Dr. Sara Rich |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 152 |
| Release Date: | 8 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 164mm x 118mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
In times when fungi mean high tech and big business, this book gracefully brings the human-mushroom relationship back to earth. An ode to our partners in eco-intimacy and mortality, it reminds us that foraging involves much more than learning how to ID–it also requires risking, dreaming, and opening to the future. Mushroom belongs on every forager’s shelf, next to the field guides. * Margret Grebowicz, author of Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans *
About The Author
Dr. Sara Rich
Sara Rich is Assistant Professor of Honors at Coastal Carolina University, USA. She is the author of four recent books, including Closer to Dust (2021) and Shipwreck Hauntography (2021), and editor of Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology (2023).
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