{"product_id":"giant-polypores-and-stoned-reindeer-lawrence-millman-9780982821930","title":"Giant Polypores and Stoned Reindeer: Rambles in Kingdom Fungi","description":"\u003cp\u003eAre there mushrooms in Antarctica? What kinds of fungi grow on deer dung? What would happen to me if I ate \u003cem\u003eAmanita muscaria\u003c\/em\u003e? What have mushrooms got to do with Santa Claus? All these questions, and many others you would not have guessed to ask, are answered in \u003cem\u003eGiant Polypores and Stoned Reindeer: Rambles in Kingdom Fungi.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMycologist, author, traveler and raconteur, Lawrence Millman has brought together two dozen fascinating myco-tales of encounters with a wide range or organisms from extinct polypores, fungi that start fires and cure wounds, to intoxicated reindeer, wild mushroom collectors and Bornean head hunters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGiant Polypores\u003c\/em\u003e is a fungophilic ramble from the Antarctic to Honduras to Iceland, searching for new and rare taxons, unusual characters and strange encounters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you are enamored with such Latin binomials as \u003cem\u003eGanoderma applanatum\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGymnopilus spectabilis, Inonotus obliquus \u003c\/em\u003eor \u003cem\u003eRadulomyces copelandii\u003c\/em\u003e you will love Giant Polypores and Stoned Reindeer. If terms such as resupinate fruiting body, cystidia, hymenium or glaborous make your heart beat just a bit faster, then, as mycologist emeritus, Elio Schaechter said, \"I dare you to put this book down once you open it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lawrence Millman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 098282193X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780982821930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Komatik Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d","brand":"Lawrence Millman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047299805439,"sku":"9780982821930","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_05c1fb23-fe93-4394-a318-62e0c9faeeb3.jpg?v=1684989414","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/giant-polypores-and-stoned-reindeer-lawrence-millman-9780982821930","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}