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The Book of Fungi: A Life-size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World. Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans. 2011. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 656 pp. $55, hardcover. ISBN 9780226721170. Colorful, mysterious, and often fantastically shaped, fungi have been a source of wonder and fascination since the earliest hunter-gatherers first foraged for them. Today there are few, if any, places on Earth where fungi have not found themselves a home. And these highly specialized organisms are an indispensable...