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African diaspora
anarchism
animacy
Anthropocene
anti-capitalism
apocalypse
Atlanta
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autumn aroma
Black scientist
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climate change
coevolution
dissociation
ecology
ecosystems
entanglement
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farming
fire
Florida
foodways
foraging
forest bathing
freedom
Fungi
gender
Haiti
indigenous views of nature
Jamaica
literary studies
maroons
matsutake
more-than-human
mushroom cultivation
mushrooms
natural world
nature
parasites
petit marronage
poison
popular science
psilocybin
psychedelic therapy
resistance
science communication
spores
survival
the resistance of enslaved people
truffles
wood-wide web
zombies
Product details
- ISBN 9781469689791
- Dimensions: 216 x 140mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2025
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Naturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research, memoir, and nature writing, touching on topics that range from Black farmers’ domestication of the unforgettable aroma of truffles to the history of mycological poisons wielded by enslaved people against their enslavers.
Pinto brings a new perspective and a distinctive literary voice to this mix of environmental and lived history, and every page sings with her enthusiasm for the networks in which we are embedded: fungal, ecological, ancestral, and communal. Join her in pursuit of beautiful, perplexing, delicious, and deadly mushrooms as she explores this understudied kingdom’s awe-inspiring diversity and discovers how fungi have been used by people, especially those on the margins, for survival, pleasure, revelation, and revolution.
Pinto brings a new perspective and a distinctive literary voice to this mix of environmental and lived history, and every page sings with her enthusiasm for the networks in which we are embedded: fungal, ecological, ancestral, and communal. Join her in pursuit of beautiful, perplexing, delicious, and deadly mushrooms as she explores this understudied kingdom’s awe-inspiring diversity and discovers how fungi have been used by people, especially those on the margins, for survival, pleasure, revelation, and revolution.
Maria Pinto is a Boston-area writer, mycophile, and educator who was born in Jamaica and grew up in South Florida.
