Sam's Corner: the public journal of a mycological guru
By Samuel S. Ristich; published 2002 by V.F. Thomas Co.
"This is the next best thing to being on a field trip with Sam. This is about what Sam finds as he finds it. It's about what he sees and knows and thinks about what he's finding. It's better than any
field guide because it gives you the sense of surprise and wonder at what is being found here and now, and now here, and now there. If mushroom field guides are the dry bones of mycology, Sam is the flesh and blood. And for Sam, mycology doesn't exist in a vacuum. In Sam's Corner, you'll find the mushroom growing in context - embedded in the terrestrial landscape of plants and animals. Sam sees what most of us miss, and he knows what most of us see but can't identify. What a treasure!"
- - Gary Lincoff, author of The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms
Sam Ristich (PhD, Cornell, 1950) is well known to amateur and professional mushroom fanciers in the Northeast (who hold the annual Northeast "Sam Ristich Foray" to recognize him), as well as to mycologists in the rest of the United States and much of the world. Since retiring from Cornell in 1980, Sam has lived in Maine, where he was instrumental in founding the Maine Mycological Association, Inc. (MMA). Sam has been MMA's mushroom guru and spiritual leader since its beginning in 1985. For over fifteen years he has kept a uniquely styled mycological journal, "Sam's Corner," published in MMA's quarterly newsletter, Mainely Mushrooms.
This volume is a collection of these articles, 1986 through 2000. It contains nearly 150 pages of text - - plus indices, appendices, color photos, and hand drawings. "Sam's Corner would make a perfect gift for anyone who wants to know what it s like to experience finding mushrooms of all kinds in all kinds of places" (Gary Lincoff).
Sam's Corner can be purchased for $20.00 a copy, plus S&H ($4.00 for one copy, $6.00 for two or more copies), plus 5% sales tax ($1.00 a copy, Maine addresses only). Send orders to
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