#  Botany Libraries provide resources for Michael Pollan's latest work 

 





May 03, 2016

 

 

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Author Michael Pollan discusses his latest project with the [Harvard Gazette](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/05/from-fresh-food-to-magic-mushrooms/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=05.03.2016%20(1) and how the [Botany Libraries](/libraries) played a role in his research.

*Pollan "recounted the delight of reading R. Gordon Wasson’s 1950s-era account, preserved in Harvard’s Botany Libraries**,** of taking hallucinogenic mushrooms in a Mexican Mazatec religious ceremony."*



 

 

 



 

 

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