Author Name: Fine, Gary Alan
Title: MOREL TALES the Culture of Mushrooming
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998
Seller ID: 010528
HB. 1st ed. 8vo, 324 pp VG+/VG, grn cl bds w/gilt ltrs, grn-lt brn dj w/pictorial frt, VG Author explores how Americans attempt to give meaning to the natural world that surrounds them, & suggests that the meanings we assign to the natural environment are culturally gournded. He highlights the extensive range of meanings that mu shrooms have f/mushroomers. He details how the mushroomers talk about their finds, turning their experiences into "fish stories" & treasure tales, how they routinely joke about dying f/or killing others w/ misidentified mushrooms.
HUMAN ECOLOGY MUSHROOMS EDIBLE NATURE PLANTS FUNGI
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