Chinese Goldfish

Moselio Schaechter
Harvard University Press

In a style at once learned and quirky, personal and commanding, Elio Schaechter imparts the fascinating minutiae and the weighty implications of his subject - a primarily microscopic life form that nonetheless accounts for up to two tons of matter for every human on the planet. He shows us how fungi, the great decomposers, recycle most of the world's vegetable matter - from a blade of grass to a strapping tree - and thus prevent us from sinking under ever-accumulating masses of decaying matter. With the same expertise and contagious enthusiasm that he brings to the biology of mushrooms, Schaechter conveys the allure of the mushroom hunt. Drawing on his own experience as well as that of seasoned pickers and amateur mycologists, he explains when and where to find mushrooms, how they are cultivated, and how they are used in various cultures. From the delectable to the merely tolerable, from the hallucinogenic to the deadly, a wide variety of mushrooms are covered in this spirited presentation.

Miriam Rothschild, Clive Farrell
Franco Muzzio editore

E. N. Arnold, J. A. Burton
Franco Muzzio Editore

Claudio Brissoni
Editrice Cesare Ferrari

Antonello Sannia
Tecniche Nuove

Harry Baker
Zanichelli Editore

Carlo A. Gonin
Francesco Battiato editore

Marco Lambertini
Franco Muzzio Editore

Karl von Frisch
Edizioni agricole

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Massimo Demma
Franco Muzzio editore

David Alderton
Vallardi Industrie Grafiche

Wolfgang Luther, Kurt Fiedler
Muzzio