Name: Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms (en Inglés)
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Author: Richard Fortey
ISBN: 9780008639723

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Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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HarperCollins

Autor

Richard Fortey

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

336

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Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780008639723

Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms (en Inglés)

Richard Fortey (Autor) · HarperCollins · Tapa Blanda

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A very enjoyable book that brilliantly blends science insight and passion TRISTAN GOOLEYThe secret world of fungi is another kingdom They do things differently there Diverse beyond our wildest imaginations fungi don t obey rules They pop up unbidden and often dressed in curious reds and greens They do not seem of this world yet fungi underpin all the life around us the wood wide web links the trees by a subterranean telegraph fungi eat the fallen trunks and leaves to recycle the nutrients that keep the wood alive they feed a host of beetles and flies which in turn feed birds and bats Fungi produce the most expensive foods in the world but also offer the prospect of cheap protein for all they cure disease and they both cause disease and kill they are the specialists to surpass all others their diversity thrills and bewilders Professor Richard Fortey has been a devoted field mycologist all his life He has rejoiced in the exuberant variety and profusion of mushrooms since reading as a boy of nuns driven mad by ergot a fungus Drawing on decades of experience doing science in the woods and fields Fortey starts with the perfect fungus day eating ceps in Piedmont He introduces brown rotters and the white earthstars and death caps fungal annuals a