Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms
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Meetings with Remarkable Mushroom
Forays with Fungi across Hemispheress
University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226829630
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2023 October 10
$26.00 USD
Breve Descripción
¿Qué podemos aprender de la vida de los hongos? Dividiendo el tiempo entre los hemisferios norte y sur, la ecologista Alison Pouliot asegura que experimenta dos otoños al año en busca de hongos, desde los desiertos de Australia hasta los glaciares de Islandia y las Montañas Cascade de Estados Unidos. En Encuentros con hongos notables, viajamos junto a Pouliot, lupa en mano, mientras ella viaja por el mundo.
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O que podemos aprender com a vida dos fungos? Dividindo o seu tempo entre os hemisférios norte e sul, a ecologista Alison Pouliot diz que vive dois outonos por ano à procura de cogumelos, desde os desertos da Austrália até aos glaciares da Islândia e às Montanhas Cascade dos Estados Unidos. Em Remarkable Mushroom Encounters, viajamos ao lado de Pouliot, com uma lupa na mão, enquanto ela viaja pelo mundo.
Full description
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.
Natural Science
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