{"product_id":"chanterelle-dreams-and-amanita-nightmares-the-love-lore-and-mystique-of-mushrooms","title":"Chanterelle Dreams and Amanita Nightmares : The Love, Lore and Mystique of Mushrooms","description":"\u003cp\u003eBook language : English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN : 9781603582148\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor : Greg Marley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher : Chelsea Green Publishing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication date : 2010\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages : 288\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout 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 fact, there is truth in all these statements. In \u003cem\u003eChanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares\u003c\/em\u003e, author Greg Marley reveals some of the wonders and mysteries of mushrooms, and our conflicting human reactions to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith tales from around the world, Marley, a seasoned mushroom expert, explains that some cultures are \u003cem\u003emycophilic \u003c\/em\u003e(mushroom-loving), like those of Russia and Eastern Europe, while others are intensely \u003cem\u003emycophobic \u003c\/em\u003e(mushroom-fearing), including the US. He shares stories from China, Japan, and Korea--where mushrooms are interwoven into the fabric of daily life as food, medicine, fable, and folklore--and from Slavic countries where whole families leave villages and cities during rainy periods of the late summer and fall and traipse into the forests for mushroom-collecting excursions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the famous \u003cem\u003eAmanita phalloides \u003c\/em\u003e(aka \"the Death Cap\"), reputed killer of Emperor Claudius in the first century AD, to the beloved chanterelle (\u003cem\u003ecantharellus cibarius\u003c\/em\u003e) known by at least eighty-nine different common names in almost twenty-five languages, \u003cem\u003eChanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares \u003c\/em\u003eexplores the ways that mushrooms have shaped societies all over the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating and fresh look at mushrooms - their natural history, their uses and abuses, their pleasures and dangers - is a splendid introduction to both fungi themselves and to our human fascination with them. From useful descriptions of the most foolproof edible species to revealing stories about hallucinogenic or poisonous, yet often beautiful, fungi, Marley's long and passionate experience will inform and inspire readers with the stories of these dark and mysterious denizens of our forest floor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chelsea Green","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45522634211351,"sku":"srx1789637844836","price":16.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/1531\/9319\/files\/chanterelle-dreams-and-amanita-nightmares-the-love-lore-and-mystique-of-mushroom_1.jpg?v=1789637849","url":"https:\/\/antimicrobialfit.shop\/products\/chanterelle-dreams-and-amanita-nightmares-the-love-lore-and-mystique-of-mushrooms","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}