From the Bookshelf of Nature Calls…

[close] [close] This book is not a field guide to fungi - it is much better than that. It is full of weird and amazing facts about fungi. For instance a fungi may have been the trigger for the Witch Hunting fever that swept through Europe in 16th & 17th century.The book covers everything from Folklore, cultural & religious uses of fungi, medicinal and culinary uses of fungi, fungi in art & literature to fungi that glow in the dark and why fairy rings form.
The book is also loaded with beautiful pictures and written in a very readable and amusing way.