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Richard Fortey: Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind

Richard Fortey is a celebrated scientist, writer and television presenter with a long career in palaeontology at the Natural History Museum in London. Richard has published numerous books including The Hidden Landscape, Life, Trilobite! and his highly-acclaimed memoir A Curious Boy. He was elected President of the Geological Society of London and was awarded the geological Society Lyell Medal for significant contribution to geology. For over four decades he has indulged his passion for the study of fungi. 

In Close Encounters of a Fungal Kind, Fortey leads us on a glorious literary journey, narrated through field trips to real places in search of the strangest, most extraordinary, or even most delicious fungi.

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