This repository contains the New Alexandria Archive eBook edition of Valentina Pavlovna Wasson and R. Gordon Wasson's pioneering two volume work Mushrooms, Russia and History. As only 512 copies were ever published, it is my hope that this eBook edition will make this fascinating work more accessible to the general public.
This eBook was compiled and typeset by Bayard Randel kit@nocturne.net.nz . It was derived from the New Alexandria Archive digital edition pdf, which was scanned from the original copy no. 37, and hand corrected by Igor Dolgov, Zachary Jones, and Greg Golden. Additional corrections have been made with reference to original scans provided by Zachary Jones.
To build eBooks run:
make
make epub
make mobi
Note: Building mobi/all requires Kindlegen on your path.
To verify the epub, run:
make check
Note: This requires epubcheck on your path.
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Biblio
- All Chapters
- Add indices (~60% complete in https://github.com/squidsoup/mushrooms-russia-history-ebook/tree/indices)
In order to adapt this work to eBook formats, a number of changes have been made:
- While Mushrooms, Russia and History was originally published in two volumes, both volumes are presented here as a single eBook for convenience. References to volumes in the text have been removed.
- As eBook page layouts are fluid and device dependant, the position of figures and plates have been changed to improve clarity.
- Footnotes are rendered at the end of chapters and numbered per chapter rather than per page.
- References to page numbers from the original text have been removed. Links instead are provided from appendices and indices.
With reference to the original scans I have endeavoured correct errors in the text which presumably resulted from errors in the original OCR.