Title:
The secret life of fungi : discoveries from a hidden world
Author:
Whiteley, Aliya, 1974- author.
ISBN:
9781643137858
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Physical Description:
xii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:
Erupt: To name, to know ; A small field ; The common mushroom ; Forays and feasts ; Learn, carry, collect ; Saviours ; Fruiting cities ; Weak seeds need strong friends ; Cryptic clues ; Blanket coverage ; Slow dancers, thrown high -- Spread: Nosing ; Spire ; The giant ; Walking the floor ; OId stones ; Under Alice ; Expansions ; Once upon a beetle ; Seven ways to survive ; Stowaways of the space age -- Decay: Gathering the dead ; The big stick ; Fire, faith and gangrene ; Wehre the rule bends ; Killer club ; Underground visions ; To live and die in fungi ; Grasp ; Onwards, downwards, upwards -- Afterword -- Dramatis fungi -- A reading list of fungal fiction.
Abstract:
"Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and live between our toes or our floorboards. They are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats, and symbols of both death and eternal life. But despite their familiar presence, there's still much to learn about the eruption, growth, and decay of their secret, interconnected, world"-- Provided by publisher
