Lawrence Millman
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Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Last Speaker of Bear is the patchwork story of a life spent traveling in the far north from Alaska to Siberia. Lawrence Millman first visited northern Canada as a child and has spent four decades since on some thirty-five excursions in search of a deeper understanding of the historical and cultural elements that define and drive lives closely tied to the land, animals, and traditions. While much of his experience is centered in Canada-including...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"At the End of the World is the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941. Those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly peaceful as the Inuit can become unpeaceful at the drop of a hat or, in this instance, a meteor shower. At the same time, the book is a warning cry against the destruction of...
Author
Publisher
Lumen Editions
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"Lawrence Millman has a penchant for traveling unusual places. In this stylish, erudite, often very funny book, the celebrated travel writer visits the South Pcific, the Canadian Arctic, the largest unknown island in North America, the most remote community in the eastern US and many other places as well ..."--Back cover.