Mushrooms, the first of a major new series of books on British natural history, provides a remarkable insight into the natural and human world of fungi. Peter Marren, in his inimitable, relaxed style, guides the reader through the extraordinary riches of this often overlooked group, from the amazing diversity of forms and lifestyles that populate the fungal landscape, to the pursuit of edible fungi for the pot, and the complexities of identification thrown up by our modern understanding of DNA. Throughout the book, the author tells a story rich in detail about how we have come to appreciate and, in some cases, fear the mushrooms and toadstools that are such an integral part of the changing seasons. Marren also provides a refreshingly candid view of our attempts to name species, the role of fungi in ecosystems, and our recent efforts to record and conserve them.
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Weight: 920g
Publication Date: 13 May 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781472971494
About Peter Marren
Peter Marren is a natural history writer and former government and freelance conservationist. He is a wildlife polymath whose writings extend from newspaper journalism obituaries book reviews and opinion pieces to humour and news summaries for the likes of Whitakers Almanack. His twenty books include a quarter-million-word cultural survey of invertebrates (Bugs Britannica) a bibliographic biography (The New Naturalists) a study of rarity (Britains Rare Flowers) art criticism (Art of the New Naturalists) urban wildlife (A Natural History of Aberdeen) and humour (Twitching through the Swamp). He has written for every issue of British Wildlife since 1990 including many articles and news pieces about fungi. He regularly leads fungus forays into the wilds of Wiltshire and Berkshire.