Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants

Over 100 color illustrations make identification simple and certain Where to find the plants and easy recipes for enjoying the fruits of your foraging. more

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Posted: Jun-02-2008

Well-packaged but inaccurate

I have long owned the earlier edition and excitedly bought this new one. This book is a good idea but poorly executed. (Let me say right away that I am the author of an edible plant book, so you can accuse me of bashing the competition if you want.) The older edition was one of the books that...

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Posted: May-03-2008

A good book for your library

The Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants is a good book to have on your shelf if you are interested in if you want to know what wild plants are edible. The book does discuss many different types of plants that grow out in the wild. The Field Guide does a good job of discussing where to find the...

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Posted: Nov-17-2007

Good book

I owned this before and I remember it seeming more durable but it is well written.

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Posted: Oct-28-2007

A good book

This book first caught my attention in the 70s but over the years I had lost my original copy so I repurchased one. It is still a good book even though the pictures are all rendered as art, which makes me a little nervous on critical IDs. I enjoy the details on preparing the plants, some of which...

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Posted: Nov-08-2005

Good, Not Great

Other reviewers caution that this text "should not be your only source"... I agree, but I'd guess that's true of any such reference.

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Posted: Sep-05-2004

A nice book, but should not be your only source

This is an interesting guide with lots of good illustrations and detailed descriptions of the plants. But I would never dare to eat any of the plants because the book does not explain whether the edible plants could easily be confused with possibly toxic plants, it does not explain clearly enough...

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Posted: Sep-09-2003

Don?t throw away your hoe and spade yet

This book is a catalog of mostly uncultivated plants that are edible or have medicinal purposes. The entries are arranged alphabetically by common name, so there is no key system- -if you're looking at a plant and you don't already know it's name, you'll have to leaf through every page of the...

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Posted: Sep-07-2002

Better than many others

I find this one useful. Drawings are not "natural" but compensate by revealing all major parts clearly: root, leaf, flower, stems. Anyway, I find one needs at least two books for reliable identity and often for any ID at all. Variations among species make identity of individual plants a lot...

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Posted: Aug-02-2002

A little knowledge can be dangerous...

This book is very interesting with nice pictures but should not be used as a primary source in the field. In my opinion, it gives a false sense of security by failing to mention poisonous plants that appear similar to those highlighted. Also, it does not pay particular attention to precise...

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Posted: Apr-05-2000

Saved my Life!

When I was stranded with my dog in the Alaska Wilderness for a week and a half, this book saved my life. Without it, how could I have eaten well until the aircraft came - yes, you heard - eaten well! I thank Bradford Angier greatly for this wonderful text!

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