Soma and the Fly-Agaric: Mr. Wasson’s Rejoinder to Professor Brough
R. Gordon WassonCambridge: Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1972.
First Edition.
24cm x 17cm. 58 pages. Lettered wrappers.
Ethnomycological Studies No. 2. Foreword by Richard Evans Schultes. The rare second part of Wasson’s Ethnomycological Studies. The paper is an answer to Prof. John Brough of Cambridge, who contested Wasson’s hypothesis that the original soma plant must have been Amanita muscaria.
Very minor shelf wear. Near Fine Condition.
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