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Shroom : a cultural history of the magic mushroom

Print Book, English, 2008
1st Harper Perennial ed View all formats and editions
Harper Perennial, New York, 2008
History
xiv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780060828295, 0060828293
1020184141
I: Agaricus
The mushroom people
Science and magic
The archaeology of ecstasy
Much disordered
Feasts and revelations
Wasson
II: Amanita
The fly-agaric
Soma
Chemistry and conspiracy
III: Psilocybe
Academic exercise
High priests
Ripples and waves
Underground, overground
The elf-clowns of hyperspace
Muck and brass
"First published in Great Britain in 2006 by Faber and Faber"--Title page verso