![]() Your Body is a Revolution: Healing Our Relationships with Our Bodies, Each Other, and the Earth, With Borsato’s rich, lyrical descriptions and vibrant gouache illustrations by Kelsey Oseid, this book is sure to turn you on to the wonders and weirdnesses of our fungal friends.įor fans of chanterelles, reishi, lion’s mane, chaga, maitake… More than your standard field guide, Mushrooming introduces readers to a magnificent array of fungi, offering not only the practical “can I eat this without dying?” basics of each species but also musings on what these spore-bearing beings can teach us about “sensory literacy,” biodiversity, mortality and regeneration, artistic inspiration, and the interconnectedness of the living world. There are mushrooms that so resemble birds they’re routinely shot by hoodwinked hunters, ghostly tooth-like mushrooms that drip “blood,” mushrooms that glow in the dark-all of which, along with well over a hundred others, can be found in Toronto-based artist Diane Borsato’s new mycological masterpiece. It seems everyone is embracing their inner mycophile these days, and though I retain a contrarian teenager’s aversion to trends, I’m totally on board with the mushroom craze. Mushrooming: An Illustrated Guide to the Fantastic, Delicious, Deadly and Strange World of Fungi , Patten Free Library > Staff Picks Aurora’s Anticipated New Nonfiction: May ![]()
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