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Author : Lawrence Millman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998711317
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Giant Polypores and Stoned Reindeer written by Lawrence Millman and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories about Fungi
Author : Lawrence Millman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982821930
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Giant Polypores and Stoned Reindeer written by Lawrence Millman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Giant Polypores and Stoned Reindeer, author-mycologist Lawrence Millman travels far and wide in search of weird and unusual fungi. The book contains essays about (among other things) fungi that grow in shit, fungi that you can find on Christmas, a fungus that weighs 300 pounds, a fungus that keeps away mosquitoes, and fungi on the Harvard campus. You can even learn about a fungus that grew on the summit of Mt. Everest (hint: it grew on the head of a mountain climber). Is there a fungal entity in Alaska that's a quarter of a mile in diameter? The intrepid author goes off in search of it.
Author : Lawrence Millman
Publisher : Coyote Arts
ISBN 13 : 1587750511
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Outsider written by Lawrence Millman and published by Coyote Arts. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outsider: My Boyhood with Thoreau is a memoir told in vignettes by the mycologist and author Lawrence Millman. Early on, Millman found in Thoreau a kindred spirit, far outside of the mainstream social, sporting, and educational interests he was expected to be cultivating. And like Thoreau, he would rather be out-of-doors — where he could socialize with mushrooms, insects, or earthworms — than stuck in any indoor locale.
Author : Lawrence Millman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250111404
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book At the End of the World written by Lawrence Millman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the End of the World is the heartbreaking account of a series of obscure murders in the remote Belcher Islands and the ludicrous trial that followed. It is also an elegiac and unsentimental lamentation for a now-dying way of life on the northern perimeter of our planet where the Inuit people have always resided. In addition, it is a prophetic admonition of the dehumanization, and imminent destruction of what s left of our own culture s humanity, not to mention the natural world. At the End of the World is a brilliant and original book by one of the boldest and most visionary writers of our era, or any other.
Author : Matt Kaplan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147677711X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Science of the Magical written by Matt Kaplan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the author of The Science of Monsters, this engaging scientific inquiry provides a definitive look into the elements of mystical places and magical object--from the philosopher's stone, to love potions to the oracles--from ancient history, mythology, and contemporary culture. Can migrations of birds foretell our future? Do phases of the moon hold sway over our lives? Are there sacred springs that cure the ill? What is the best way to brew a love potion? How do we create mutant humans who regenerate like Wolverine? In Science of the Magical, noted science journalist Matt Kaplan plumbs the rich, lively, and surprising history of the magical objects, places, and rituals that infuse ancient and contemporary myth. Like Ken Jennings and Mary Roach, Kaplan serves as a friendly armchair guide to the world of the supernatural. From the strengthening powers of Viking mead, to the super soldiers in movies like Captain America, Kaplan ranges across cultures and time periods to point out that there is often much more to these enduring magical narratives than mere fantasy. Informative and entertaining, Science of the Magical explores our world through the compelling scope of natural and human history and cutting-edge science."--
Author : Lawrence Millman
Publisher : M. Evans
ISBN 13 : 9781590775103
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Our Like Will Not Be There Again written by Lawrence Millman and published by M. Evans. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning travel writer Lawrence Millman tromps through western Ireland's rugged countryside to record the oral history of its people before their hard-earned traditions are permanently stifled by industrialization and development. In doing so he produces a "lovely nugget of good writing" (New York Times) that relays the stories of traditional laborers-tinkers cartwrights, rat-charmers, coopers, thatchers, farriers, gleemen, pig-gelders-with candor and depth.
Author : Lawrence Millman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618082483
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Last Places written by Lawrence Millman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of northern exploration and adventure, LAST PLACES is Lawrence Millman's marvelously told account of his journey along the ancient Viking sea routes that extend from Norway to Newfoundland. Traveling through landscapes of transcendent desolation, Millman wandered by way of the Shetland Islands, the Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador. His way was marked by surprising human encounters--with a convicted murderer in Reykjavik, an Inuit hermit in Greenland, an Icelandic guide who leads him to a place called Hell, and a Newfoundlander who warns him about the local variant of the Abominable Snowman. By turns earthy and lyrical, LAST PLACES is an ebullient celebration of the exotic North.
Author : Lawrence Millman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691195382
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Fungipedia written by Lawrence Millman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This little book is big fun."—Michael Pollan An illustrated mini-encyclopedia of fungal lore, from John Cage and Terence McKenna to mushroom sex and fairy rings Fungipedia presents a delightful A–Z treasury of mushroom lore. With more than 180 entries—on topics as varied as Alice in Wonderland, chestnut blight, medicinal mushrooms, poisonings, Santa Claus, and waxy caps—this collection will transport both general readers and specialists into the remarkable universe of fungi. Combining ecological, ethnographic, historical, and contemporary knowledge, author and mycologist Lawrence Millman discusses how mushrooms are much more closely related to humans than to plants, how they engage in sex, how insects farm them, and how certain species happily dine on leftover radiation, cockroach antennae, and dung. He explores the lives of individuals like African American scientist George Washington Carver, who specialized in crop diseases caused by fungi; Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, who was prevented from becoming a professional mycologist because she was a woman; and Gordon Wasson, a J. P. Morgan vice-president who almost single-handedly introduced the world to magic mushrooms. Millman considers why fungi are among the most significant organisms on our planet and how they are currently being affected by destructive human behavior, including climate change. With charming drawings by artist and illustrator Amy Jean Porter, Fungipedia offers a treasure trove of scientific and cultural information. The world of mushrooms lies right at your door—be amazed!
Author : Lawrence Millman
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Kayak Full of Ghosts written by Lawrence Millman and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of Eskimo folk tales.
Author : Lawrence Millman
Publisher : Brookline Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571290557
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book An Evening Among Headhunters written by Lawrence Millman and published by Brookline Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We follow inveterate traveler Lawrence Millman to Tropical Retreats, Northern Outposts, The Back of Beyond, and Islands off the Map (the four categories into which this book is divided), and without fail, wherever this pied piper takes us, we are sure to be entertained by his enthusiastic, rhapsodic, wry, and opinionated observations. One reviewer said of Millman, "If Dr. Seuss wrote travel books, they would surely resemble this one. . . ".
Author : Lawrence Millman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781636173030
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Hero Jesse written by Lawrence Millman and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leah S. Marcus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226504719
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth I written by Leah S. Marcus and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-02-25 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited and masterfully edited volume contains nearly all of the writings of Queen Elizabeth I: the clumsy letters of childhood, the early speeches of a fledgling queen, and the prayers and poetry of the monarch's later years. The first collection of its kind, Elizabeth I reveals brilliance on two counts: that of the Queen, a dazzling writer and a leading intellect of the English Renaissance, and that of the editors, whose copious annotations make the book not only essential to scholars but accessible to general readers as well. "This collection shines a light onto the character and experience of one of the most interesting of monarchs. . . . We are likely never to get a closer or clearer look at her. An intriguing and intense portrait of a woman who figures so importantly in the birth of our modern world."—Publishers Weekly "An admirable scholarly edition of the queen's literary output. . . . This anthology will excite scholars of Elizabethan history, but there is something here for all of us who revel in the English language."—John Cooper, Washington Times "Substantial, scholarly, but accessible. . . . An invaluable work of reference."—Patrick Collinson, London Review of Books "In a single extraordinary volume . . . Marcus and her coeditors have collected the Virgin Queen's letters, speeches, poems and prayers. . . . An impressive, heavily footnoted volume."—Library Journal "This excellent anthology of [Elizabeth's] speeches, poems, prayers and letters demonstrates her virtuosity and afford the reader a penetrating insight into her 'wiles and understandings.'"—Anne Somerset, New Statesman "Here then is the only trustworthy collection of the various genres of Elizabeth's writings. . . . A fine edition which will be indispensable to all those interested in Elizabeth I and her reign."—Susan Doran, History "In the torrent of words about her, the queen's own words have been hard to find. . . . [This] volume is a major scholarly achievement that makes Elizabeth's mind much more accessible than before. . . . A veritable feast of material in different genres."—David Norbrook, The New Republic
Author : David Ward
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636763
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Antifascisms written by David Ward and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth analysis of three of the most crucial years in twentieth-century Italian history, the years 1943-46. After more than two decades of a Fascist regime and a disastrous war experience during which Italy changed sides, these years saw the laying of the political and cultural foundations for what has since become known as Italy's First Republic. Drawing on texts from the literature, film, journalism, and political debate of the period, Antifascisms offers a thorough survey of the personalities and positions that informed the decisions taken in this crucial phase of modern Italian history.
Author : B. Traven
Publisher : Hill & Wang
ISBN 13 : 9780809001149
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Bridge in the Jungle written by B. Traven and published by Hill & Wang. This book was released on 1967 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded by many as Traven's finest novel, The Bridge in the Jungle is a tale of how a desperately poor people come together in the face of death. Traven never allows an iota of sentimentality to enter his story, but the reader finishes the book with renewed faith in the courage and dignity of human beings.
Author : Lawrence Millman
Publisher : Adventure Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781936571017
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Fascinating Fungi of New England written by Lawrence Millman and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Lawrence Millman escort you on a journey into the amazing natural history of over 150 Northeastern fungi species. Learn how to make spore prints, discover which species are edible and which are poisonous, and find out which mushroom the Vikings ate before their raids. -- Provided by publisher.
Author : Walter E. Sturgeon
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446398
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Appalachian Mushrooms written by Walter E. Sturgeon and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the region’s foremost mushroom hunters—Walter E. Sturgeon—comes a long-overdue field guide to finding and identifying the mushrooms and fleshy fungi found in the Appalachian mountains from Canada to Georgia. Edibility and toxicity, habitat, ecology, and detailed diagnostic features of the disparate forms they take throughout their life cycles are all included, enabling the reader to identify species without the use of a microscope or chemicals. Appalachian Mushrooms is unparalleled in its accuracy and currency, from its detailed photographs to descriptions based on the most advanced classification information available, including recent DNA studies that have upended some mushrooms’ previously accepted taxonomies. Sturgeon celebrates more than 400 species in all their diversity, beauty, and scientific interest, going beyond the expected specimens to include uncommon ones and those that are indigenous to the Appalachian region. This guide is destined to be an indispensable authority on the subject for everyone from beginning hobbyists to trained experts, throughout Appalachia and beyond.
Author : Carolyn Han
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book From the Land of Sheba written by Carolyn Han and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Yemen, at the southern tip of the Arabian Penisula, is one of the oldest inhabited regions of the world, in the West, it is one of the least known places. Ancient Yemen is mentioned in the Bible as the home to frankincense and myrrh, which was once more costly than gold; but what else do we know of this place the Romans called Felix Arabia? As stories often moved with commerce, perhaps some of our earliest stories were born in Yemen’s legendary incense groves and traveled with caravans around the world. The Romans called this land happy or prosperous because of the region’s geographic diversity: it is not just another country of vast deserts, and its history goes back thousands of years. Legends tell us, in fact, that Sana’a, the present-day capital, was established by Noah’s son, Shem. The fabled past is ever present in Yemen, and stories are told about events that happened long, long ago—as if they happened only yesterday. From the Land of Sheba brings a rich assortment of folktales from this ancient land.
