EAN: 9781501386589

MUSHROOM - SARA RICH KARTONIERT (TB)

Object Lessons is a series of short  beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of
ordinary things. They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on
Earth. They are symbols of inexplicable growth and excruciating misery. They are grouped with
plants  but they behave more like animals. In their inscrutability  mushrooms are wondrous
organisms. The mushroom is an ordinary object whose encounters with humans are usually limited
to a couple of species prepackaged at the grocery store. This book offers mushrooms as much
more than a pasta ingredient or trendy coffee alternative. It presents these objects as the
firmament for life as we know it  enablers of mystical traditions  menders of minds lost to
depression. But it acknowledges  too  that this firmament only exists because of death and rot.
Rummaging through philosophical  literary  medical   ecological   and anthropological texts
only serves to confirm what the average forager already knows: that mushrooms are to be
regarded with a reverence deserving of only the most powerful entities: those who create and
destroy  and thrive on both. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in
The Atlantic.

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