
Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless
What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
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Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless
What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
About this book
Naturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research, memoir, and nature writing, touching on topics that range from Black farmers’ domestication of the unforgettable aroma of truffles to the possibility that enslaved people wielded mycological poisons against their enslavers.
Pinto brings a new perspective and a distinctive literary voice to this mix of environmental and lived history, and every page sings with her enthusiasm for the networks in which we are embedded: fungal, ecological, ancestral, and communal. Join her in pursuit of beautiful, perplexing, delicious, and deadly mushrooms as she explores this understudied kingdom’s awe-inspiring diversity and discovers how fungi have been used by people, especially those on the margins, for survival, pleasure, revelation, and revolution.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- In Search of Junjo (The Jamaican Mushroom)
- In Search of Tuber melanosporum (The Black Winter Truffle)
- In Search of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis (The Zombie-Ant Fungus)
- In Search of Amanita phalloides (The Death Cap)
- In Search of Psilocybe Species (The Magic Mushroom)
- In Search of Fomes excavatus (The Tinder Fungus)
- In Search of Tricholoma magnivelare (The Mushroom at the End of the World)
- In Search of Schizophyllum commune (The Charismatic Mushroom)
- In Search of Undescribed Species (All We Don’t Know)
- Notes