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Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom

Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom

Paperback

Addiction & RecoveryEdible PlantsGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0060828293
ISBN13: 9780060828295
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Feb 19 2008
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.78 Depth: 8.05
Language: English

Even if read while sober, Andy Lechter's Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom, is a near-transcendent experience. -New York Times Book Review

Since its rediscovery only fifty years ago, the magic mushroom: a hallucinogenic fungus once shunned in the West as the most pernicious of poisons, has inspired a plethora of folktales and urban legends. In this timely and definitive study, Andy Letcher chronicles the history of the magic mushroom--from its use by the Aztecs of Central America and the tribes of Siberia through to the present day--stripping away the myths and taking a critical and humorous look at the drug's more recent manifestations.

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