The Third Hunt

Nature Writing

By: Vladimir Soloukhin(Author), Olive Home(Translated by)

240 pages, 1 b/w photo and 13 b/w illustrations

Publisher: Olive Home (privately published)

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ISBN: 9780464060277 Paperback Jan 2019 In stock
£14.99
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The Third Hunt, written by Vladimir Soloukhin (1924-1997), was published in Russian in Moscow in 1968. Here, it is translated for the first time in English by Olive Home. It is still well known today, and often referred to on Russian mushrooming websites.

The fruits of a lifetime of mushroom hunting, Soloukhin draws on his local knowledge of mushrooms from the peasant village where he grew up in this book. His magazine articles on mushrooms brought replies from readers all over the Soviet Union, from which he included a remarkable contribution on how to cultivate white mushrooms, or boletus. Soloukhin writes a naturalist's diatribe against honey fungus, and a closing chapter on how to find, and cook, morels.