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In the Company of Mushrooms: A Biologist's Tale

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In the Company of Mushrooms: A Biologist's Tale - Schaechter, Elio
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We might savor them in a salad or a sauce, wonder at their power to intoxicate or poison, marvel at their multifarious presence in the forestbut few of us realize that mushrooms, humbly thriving on decay, are crucial to life on Earth as we know it. In this book a distinguished biologist reveals the power of these curious organismsnot quite animal, not quite plantto enchant and instruct, to nourish and make way for all sorts of superior forms of nature. 16 color illus. 18 b&w.

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In the Company of Mushrooms: A Biologist's Tale 1998, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674445550

Revised edition

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In the Company of Mushrooms: A Biologist's Tale, 1997, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674445543

Hardcover

In the Company of Mushrooms: A Biologist's Tale 1997, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674432741

Printing 1998

Hardcover