CHASING THE RAIN
My Treasure Hunt for the World's Most Beautiful
Mushrooms
(signed by the author)
Chasing
the Rain
My Treasure Hunt for the World's Most Beautiful Mushrooms
Chasing the Rain is the fruit of Taylor Lockwood's
travels in search of the world's most beautiful mushrooms. Through
pictures, it relates the diversity of life-forms found in this
very large, but still relatively little-known kingdom. Chasing
the Rain tells the stories behind those pictures, shows
us ones not yet published, and reveals something new.
Taylor's anecdotes on photographing mushrooms in various climes
and conditions chronicles the connection between people who
hunt mushrooms all over the world. Developing friendships with
colleagues and fellow mushroom enthusiasts around the globe
has afforded Taylor a unique perspective on people, travel,
and nature-from the ground up. With fungi as the common denominator,
barriers of language, culture, and politics are erased.
Through his lens, we are taken on a gentle journey that is
sometimes exciting, oftentimes funny, and always close to the
earth.
Product Specifics:
- Hard-cover coffee table book with dust
jacket
- Dimensions: 9 3/4" X 11"
- General index and Species index
- 128 pages
- Over 500 full-color photographs
Reviews:
A very special blend of travelogue and horticultural study,
Chasing the Rain: My Treasure Hunt for the World's Most
Beautiful Mushrooms by Taylor F. Lockwood is beautifully
illustrated throughout with the author's simply gorgeous, full-color
photography of an astonishing variety of mushrooms. The text
offers fascinating and informative anecdotes about everything
from having to dodge deadly snakes in China, to warding off
swarms of mosquitoes in Borneo, to outsmarting a band of monkeys
in Bali, to hunting for mushrooms at 14,000 feet in Tibet's
thin air, to the difficulties of finding mushrooms in drought-stricken
Europe. The culmination (to date) of his passionate appreciation
for mushrooms and other fungi, Chasing the Rain is
also an account of the connection felt by people who, like esthetic
mycologist Taylor Lockwood, hunt the mushrooms of the world.
A joy to page through and a highly recommended addition to personal,
academic, and community library collections, Chasing the
Rain is as entertaining as it is informative.--James A.
Cox, Midwest Book Review
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