![]() ![]() New York: Pantheon Books (1957) Book contributions 'Mushrooms.' In: The Drug Experience: First Person Accounts of Addicts, Writers, Scientists and Others, edited by David Ebin. ![]() Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man. Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality (1968) Mushrooms, Russia and History, with Valentina Pavlovna Wasson. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. "The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophiles R. I congratulate him on his feat." - Robert Graves, Atlantic Monthly "The argument of Wasson's Soma is as lucid as unanswerable the illustrations are wonderful, the quotations are numerous and telling. Wasson's work establishes, in our opinion convincingly, that among all the candidatures put forward for representing Soma, Amanita muscaria is by far the most plausible." -C laude Levi-Strauss, L'Homme ![]() Wasson advances a revolutionary hypothesis on the nature of Soma, the implications of which are so widespread that ethnologists cannot leave the task of communicating it to Indian specialists only.Mr. ![]()
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