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Cargando... Shroom (2006 original; edición 2006)por Andy Letcher
Información de la obraShroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom por Andy Letcher (2006)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Interesting little history on how psychedelic mushrooms have been viewed by Western culture. The author obviously was involved with the mushroom culture but still seems to keep a pretty realistic and critical viewpoint for most of the book. If you have interest in anthropology, the counter-culture, or a little better understanding of how the drugs work. It's aimed for the mass market, but still has lots of nice reference and history. The author is also British, so there's details of the counterculture in the UK that I hadn't heard before. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Is Santa Claus really a magic mushroom in disguise? Was Alice in Wonderland a thinly veiled psychedelic mushroom odyssey? Did mushroom tea kick-start ancient Greek philosophy? Much stranger than the fictions it has inspired, the world of the magic mushroom is a place where shamans and hippies rub shoulders with psychiatrists, poets and international bankers. The 'magic mushroom' was only rediscovered fifty years ago, but has accumulated all sorts of folktales and urban legends along the way. In this timely and definitive study, Andy Letcher strips away the myths to get at the true story of how hallucinogenic mushrooms, once shunned in the West as the most pernicious of poisons, came to be the illicit drug of choice. Chronicling 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, Letcher takes a critical and humorous look at the drug's more recent manifestations. Since the 1970s we have identified hundreds of hallucinogenic species, isolated their active ingredients, learnt how to cultivate them on an industrial scale, and spread them around the world. More than any civilisation that has come before us, we can claim to be magic mushroom enthusiasts. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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At any rate, Mr. Letcher doesn't go there. Though the first half was seriously boring, it felt solid enough. When he got to the part about shrooms in the Northwest, though (my stomping grounds) I started to notice a LOT of errors. Marysville became Marytown. Tumwater became Turnwater. And the Evergreen State College was variously rendered as 'Evergreen University' or 'Evergreen State University'. Minor points, but it pointed to a general sloppiness about details. After five errors in three pages, I started to wonder what other little mistakes might have been scattered throughout the book. Were the quotes and figures accurate? Did I care enough to scrutinize it that much?
Nope. I gave up there, and am therefore running the risk of missing out on something really brilliant in the last section of the book. ( )