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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.’ÄîJames A.
Cox, Midwest Book Review
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