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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.

Informative, lively, and impeccably researched, Shroom is a unique and engaging exploration of this most extraordinary of psychedelics.

Shroom

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
      Published 19 February 2008
      ISBN-13 9780060828295
      978-0060828295
      ISBN-10 0060828293

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

      Informative, lively, and impeccably researched, Shroom is a unique and engaging exploration of this most extraordinary of psychedelics.

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