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The ultimate illustrated handbook on mushrooms.
More than 1,000 handsome color photographs by Roger Phillips illustrate this comprehensive guide to mushrooms and other fungi of North America, in all their astonishing variety.
Amateur collectors, expert mycologists and armchair naturalists will welcome the reissue of this valuable reference.
Each photograph has a neutral background to eliminate distractions. The specimens are arranged to show the cap, stem, gills, spines, and a cross section, usually in various stages of growth.
The information on each mushroom variety includes:
- Dimensions of cap, gills and stem
- Color and texture description of flesh
- Description of odor and taste
- Habitat and growing season
- Description of spores
- Categorization of edibility.
Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America also includes useful tips and helpful advice on collecting specimens and identifying them. This book is the ideal introduction to mycology.
Customer Reviews:
Good, but has a significant problem.......2007-10-07
On the plus side, this book exhaustively presents lots of species, including quite a few not covered in other popular guides, and in general, the photos are very good in all respects save one: the color accuracy. It appears that there has been little or no attempt to use color management when it came time to reproduce the photos. It appears that the mushrooms were all photographed in-studio rather than in the field, against a gray background. To appreciate how much the color reproduction varies, just look at the gray background in each photo, and you'll see just how off the color really is.
Other than that, I'd give the book 5 stars, but accurate color is very important in a book like this, so I give it 3 stars.
more data.......2007-06-17
This book does contain data that is usefull. However, it would not be my first or second choice. The National Audubon Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Mushrooms, and the Smithsonian Handbooks MUSHROOMS all are better, listed in order of my preference at this time.
Looks like a consensus..........2007-06-04
The (so far) unanimous rating is five stars, and that should tell you more about this book than anything I could write in this space. I bought "Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America" about two months ago, just as some of the spring mushrooms were starting to appear in my corner of North America. Since then, I have used the book to help me identify several species, and I have also found (and eaten!) my first morels.
Unless you're already familiar with mushrooms, one thing you'll take away from this book is an appreciation of the incredible diversity in the mushroom world. The roundly- and rightly-praised illustrations in "Mushrooms and Other Fungi" are a valuable aid in exploring this diversity. In addition to the pictures, Roger Phillips includes descriptions of chemical tests that you can perform when identification is a challenge, as it so often is. In other words, this book lets you to get into introductory mycology as rigorously as you want.
For an amateur mushroomer, I would say that "Mushrooms" is the next best thing to having a PCR machine in your living room...and much nicer to look at!
Mushrooms.......2007-05-13
For those serious about the field on mycology this is a worth while addition to your resource collection.
Another Great Mycology Book.......2007-01-05
This book contains high quality photos of 'shrooms at various stages of growth. Very handy in identifying as well as confirming identification of a said specimen. An awesome book to have in your personal library for identification. It does a splendid job of showing edible and inedible morels! A must have for morel hunters!
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Handy guide to mosses, ferns, mushrooms and lichens.......2007-08-24
This pocket-sized guide proves useful when identifying mushrooms, lichens, mosses and ferns. The full color illustrations and a short written description aid in identification.
There are newer guides out there, but this gets you started. I wouldn't use this to select mushrooms for eating, but it helped me identify a lichen I found this week (Red Crest Lichen). Now I know the difference between lichens and mosses which I'd previously lumped together.
I've started a moss garden, so I found the diagram of a moss' life cycle interesting.
Customer Reviews:
The best book on fungi's photographies........2002-08-15
6 stars of 5. Isn't a botanical book. No keys, no descriptions of fungi, no introduction to families... just photos... fantastic photos. Many of the species shown inside are unidentified, but it doesn't matter.
If you wanna make a gift to someone interested in fungi this is the book i'll recommend to you.
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The Concise Illustrated Book of Mushrooms and Other Fungi
D. N. Pegler
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Edible Mushrooms and Other Fungi
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Planning a trip to Europe? Lonely Planet's expertise will help you island-hop the Aegean, cruise the fjords of Norway and flamenco dance the nights away in Barcelona with all the savvy of a local.
Coverage: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.
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not much detail but stil useful.......2003-12-09
This book is not very detailed. it has 2 main sections. the first part ha basic travel information such as packing , getting around, hostels and transportation.
The second, more useful section comprises of country information. for the 35 countries covered there is a map and to 4 pages of text for each country with background country information. details on visa requirements, expected costs, other resources ( books, film, internet). The most useful aspect is the suggested itenarys by country. suggested travel itenarys are provided for each country for various durations, 3 days, 1 week , 2 weeks and a month. these are also marked out on the map to give the reader an idea of how much travel is involved.
This book is useful to those considering a European trip as it can help one find the places they may want to visit. It would be of little use to anyone in Europe as there are no local maps or details on where to stay, eat and drink.
The Lonely Planet Europe on a Shoestring guide would be a good companion to this book. use this book in your planning stages then use the shoestring guide in your travels
As with all LP guides it has many interesting first person anecdotes that make interesting reading.
Scant Information.......2000-12-19
Admittedly, this is not meant to be a replacement for books such as Europe on a Shoestring, but i found it just a little lacking in information that would be useful for planning a trip. Perhaps a good source for complete beginners who know nothing about Europe, but if people wish to travel Europe, perhaps they would be better off with a more in depth guide
Great Place to Start Planning.......2000-11-10
This book is excellent. I lived in Europe and travelled with my parents so I am aware of traveling needs. However, I've never planned it before or gone solo. This book covers every part of your planning and gives you the basics on what to see in each country depending on how much time you have. If my trip is a as much fun as reading this book was then I'm going to have an experience of a lifetime. This is for anyone who is not sure where to go but knows that they want to go to Europe.
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The Junior Jewish Encyclopedia
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Now in its fourteenth edition, thoroughly revised and updated, this book remains an outstanding one-volume compendium of the vast treasury of Jewish knowledge, the many facets of the complex world of the Jew of yesterday and today. At its first appearance, the Junior Jewish Encyclopedia won the coveted award of the Jewish Book Council of America. This volume contains articles by thirty scholars and specialists on every aspect of Jewish life the world over. Written to be understood by the younger reader, the articles are brought to life by hundreds of reproductions of paintings, drawings, photographs and maps.
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JUNIOR JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA
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Designer Profile 2000 - 2001: Graphic Design, Photo Design, Multimedia, Fashion
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Winning Showing classes is an elusive mixture of art and science. In this invaluable book, successful competitors share their expertise.
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"Delightful color gallery of bird structures that are truly works of art!"--Country Decorating Ideas. "Complete plans and detailed instructions for building fascinating bird feeders, birdhouses and bird baths...range from the practical to the outrageous. In addition, there is advice on feeding, mounting,
siting...and preventing predators."--Women's Circle.
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Outrageous fun.......2003-06-04
The crazy, outrageous plans in here is what made this book tremendous fun. I made several of the feeders with my kids, and their imaginations went wild! Not traditional bird feeders in any sense, but wild and wacky.
This book is for the birds.......2000-04-27
I was drawn to this book by the subtitle, "How to Build Unique Bird Feeders....." The feeders were unique for a reason, most are impractical at best and move on to silly, ugly, to just plain stupid. Pass this one by, the birds will thank you.
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20,000 Spanish American Pseudonyms
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