The Allure of Fungi

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The Allure of Fungi

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 280 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781486308576
  • DDC分類 598.710994

Full Description

Although relatively little known, fungi provide the links between the various organisms and ecosystems that underpin our functioning planet. The Allure of Fungi presents fungi through multiple perspectives - those of mycologists and ecologists, foragers and forayers, naturalists and farmers, aesthetes and artists, philosophers and Traditional Owners. It explores how a history of entrenched fears and misconceptions about fungi has led to their near absence in Australian ecological consciousness and biodiversity conservation. Through the combination of engaging text and stunning photography, the author reflects on how aesthetic, sensate experience deepened by scientific knowledge offers the best chance for understanding fungi, the forest and human interactions with them.

FEATURES:

An interdisciplinary exploration of fungi, their role in nature and relationships with different cultures
Engaging personal anecdotes take readers on a journey of discovery into the world of fungi and fungus enthusiasts
Evocative text and stunning macrophotography are combined in an amalgam of history, science and art.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Chapter 1 - An introduction to entangled worlds

Beyond mushrooms to mycelium

Thinking, un-thinking, re-thinking fungi

Fungal places - from Down Under to the Swiss Alps

Seeking fungi

What's inside?

Photo essay - The mycelial matrix

Chapter 2 - Meeting mushrooms

First fungal acquaintances

Describing the undefinable

Biological umbrellas

From goblets to lattice balls

Lichenised life on the edge

Extremist specialists

What fungi do - alliance as norm

Rethinking parasites

Fungal rotters

Photo essay - Endless forms most bizarre

Chapter 3 - Life in the subterrain

Different hemispheres, different fungi

Undesirable dwellings - dirt, litter and dung

In not on

Litter and literacy

Disco in a cow pat

A cargo of the uncanny

Displaced fungi

Retreating underground

Photo essay - Fungal grub and fungal havens

Chapter 4 - A stubbly bun skirmish

Mushrooming from shady obscurity

From moushrimpes to mucerons

Of toads and toadstools

Articulating fungi

Idiomatic mushrooms

Ergonomic fungi

A meander of mycelia

Words to conserve

Metaphorical mushrooms

Re-chanting the fungal lexicon

Photo essay - Biological umbrellas

Chapter 5 - Wicked wild mushrooms - a morality tale

Thievish and voracious beggars - origin myths

Rotting and disgusting - unsettling traits

Fairy cakes and trompettes de la mort

The death cap arrives in Australia

Sniffing out safety - toying with toxic mushrooms

Indeterminate and morphologically bizarre

Trouble from elsewhere - conservation and invaders

Photo essay - Recycling worlds

Chapter 6 - Organising fungi

The last of the natural historians

The desire to divide

Bounded and boundless - individuality and plurality

Why names matter

Naming and claiming - scientific and vernacular names

Tallying fungi

What makes a mushroom?

Photo essay - Undersides

Chapter 7 - Knowing fungi otherwise

A farmer's way of knowing

Aboriginal knowing

Feeling like a mushroom - sensory knowing

Fine-tuning to fungi

Fungal olfaction - reigniting smell

Getting back in touch

Slow motion mushrooms

Photo essay - Collecting

Chapter 8 - Foraging and foraying

Train-stopping mushrooms

Fungologists seeking funguses - foraying for fungi

Strange and new-fangled meates - foraging for fungi

On morel grounds

High altitude hunting

Wild desires and treacherous gratifications

Rethinking fungal expertise

Photo essay - Lichenised lives

Chapter 9 - A call for fungal wisdom

Fungi in a changing world

A fiscal fungal fantasy

Lists and the list-less

Reassessing biodiversity

Looking with the heart - from managing to caring

Re-enchanting the fungal imagination

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

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