Toads and Toadstools: The Natural History, Mythology and Cultural Oddities of This Strange Association

Adrian Morgan

Ten Speed Press, Jan 1, 1996 - Nature - 224 pages

While many field guides and cookbooks have been written on mushrooms, fewer books have been devoted to frogs and toads (certainly field guides and perhaps a cookbook)—but none that we know of has ever addressed their curious historical relationships throughout the world. Artist and scholar Adrian Morgan has spent twelve years collecting, studying, drawing, painting, observing, and eating his subjects. The result is a glorious feast for the eye as well as the intellect. An astonishing compendium of art history, cultural anthropology, pharmacology, herpetology, mycology, and serious conjecture. TOADS & TOADSTOOLS will delight and amaze any armchair biologist. Brimming over with almost 150 illustrations.

What people are saying

Review: Toads and Toadstools: The Natural History, Mythology and Cultural Oddities of This Strange Association

User Review  - Jonathan - Goodreads

Nonfiction work on cultural and historical treatment of toads and well toadstools, muchrooms of all kinds.

About the author

Adrian Morgan is an author, journalist, regular contributor to Classic Boat magazine, and he builds and restores wooden boats at his boat building yard on the shores of Loch Broom near Ullapool.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Toads and Toadstools: The Natural History, Mythology and Cultural Oddities of This Strange Association
• Author: Adrian Morgan
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 1996
• ISBN: 0890877777, 9780890877777
• Length: 224 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Animals / Mammals; Nature / Animals / Reptiles & Amphibians; Nature / General; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology