Last Places

Millman, Lawrence

Travel

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Last Places: A Journey in the North

The author recounts his experiences traveling from Norway to Newfoundland via the Faeroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador

Travel Writing

Houghton/Mifflin

Reference

Vintage

"This little book is big fun."―Michael Pollan An illustrated mini-encyclopedia of fungal lore, from John Cage and Terence McKenna to mushroom sex and fairy rings
Fungipedia presents a delightful A–Z treasury of mushroom lore. With more than 180 entries―on topics as varied as Alice in Wonderland, chestnut blight, medicinal mushrooms, poisonings, Santa Claus, and waxy caps―this collection will transport both general readers and specialists into the remarkable universe of fungi.
Combining ecological, ethnographic, historical, and contemporary knowledge, author and mycologist Lawrence Millman discusses how mushrooms are much more closely related to humans than to plants, how they engage in sex, how insects farm them, and how certain species happily dine on leftover radiation, cockroach antennae, and dung. He explores the lives of individuals like African American scientist George Washington Carver, who specialized in crop diseases caused by fungi; Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, who was prevented from becoming a professional mycologist because she was a woman; and Gordon Wasson, a J. P. Morgan vice-president who almost single-handedly introduced the world to magic mushrooms. Millman considers why fungi are among the most significant organisms on our planet and how they are currently being affected by destructive human behavior, including climate change.
With charming drawings by artist and illustrator Amy Jean Porter, Fungipedia offers a treasure trove of scientific and cultural information. The world of mushrooms lies right at your door―be amazed!

Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore (Pedia Books)

Princeton University Press

A Kayak Full of Ghosts: Eskimo Tales

History

Americas

Borgo Pr

The Wrong-Handed Man: Stories (Breakthrough Book)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Univ of Missouri Pr

Tells the stories of children who eat their parents, men who marry rocks, women with iron tales, children who grow antlers, and a shaman who can change into any animal

Capra Pr

Includes tales of Wolverine the trickster, unusual partners, cannibals, animals, magic, and the hero Tchakapesh, as told by the Innu of Labrador, a Native Canadian people who have experienced relatively few outside influences

Wolverine Creates the World: Labrador Indian Tales

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The first collection of poetry by noted travel writer Lawrence Millman."Tent Dwellers—Okak, Labrador"Inside this licheny ring of stones that once held down a sealskin tent, I pitch my own domed aquamarine tent and then quickly crawl inside to escape an ice pellet shower, whereupon I see a couple of my predecessors squatting dim and hazy, Dorset People with cuprous, epicanthic faces, scrapers of skin, tellers of tales, diviners of the weather, who stare at this pallid specimen from a distant age in his nylon-lined apparel, astonished that he somehow survived and they did not.Lawrence Millman is the author of eight other books (most recently An Evening among Headhunters) and hundreds of essays, short stories, and poems published in hundreds of magazines, as well as the editor of several anthologies.

Northern Latitudes (Marie Alexander Poetry Series)

Poetry

White Pine Press

Called the greatest travel writer since Bruce Chatwin, Lawrence Millman collects here in one volume his personal observations on the northernmost latitudes of our globe.

Northern Latitudes

Pohrt, Tom

Nocturnum Pr

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