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Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming Hardcover with dj, isbn 0 674 08935 9 - 1998
by Fine, Gary Alan
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- Title Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming
- Author Fine, Gary Alan
- Binding Hardcover with dj, ISBN 0-674-08935-9
- Edition first edition
- Condition Used - VG+,
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date 1998
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # 21818
- ISBN 9780674089358 / 0674089359
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.55 x 6.49 x 1.07 in (24.26 x 16.48 x 2.72 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Nature, Human ecology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97037201
- Dewey Decimal Code 304.27
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From the rear cover
Based on three years of field research with mushroomers at local and national forays, Morel Tales highlights the extensive range of meanings that mushrooms have for mushroomers. Fine details how mushroomers talk about their finds - turning their experiences into "fish stories" (the one that got away), war stories, and treasure tales; how mushroomers routinely joke about dying from or killing others with misidentified mushrooms, and how this dark humor contributes to the sense of community among collectors. He also describes the sometimes friendly, sometimes tense relations between amateur mushroom collectors and professional mycologists. Fine extends his argument to show that the elaboration of cultural meanings found among mushroom collectors is equally applicable to birders, butterfly collectors, rock hounds, and other naturalists.