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The Ultimate Mushroom Book: The Complete Guide to Mushrooms
by Peter Jordan, Steven Wheeler
1998-09-01 |
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With over 800 full-color photographs, this is the most comprehensive and visually exciting book yet produced on an increasingly popular subject. It has a clear and up-to-date A-Z photographic guide to over 200 field mushrooms with invaluable images of the growing mushrooms for more accurate identification. The second half of the book presents a wonderful collection of over 100 delicious recipes for mushrooms from the store or from the field, fresh or dried. |
The New Guide to Mushrooms: The Ultimate Guide to Identifying, Picking and Using Mushrooms
by Peter Jordan
1998-08-01 |
| List Price: $14.95
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This definitive reference with over 300 full-color photographs to the world of mushrooms is an essential addition to every mushroom hunter's field kit. The various habitats where mushrooms are found, the times of year when different mushrooms grow are included, along with essential information on equipment, storing and preserving, and how to take a spore print. A fully illustrated A-Z guide follows with the identifying features and habitats of the most popular edible mushrooms. Each entry is accompanied by a clear photographic portrait of the mushroom and in-place images of the growing mushroom for even more accurate information. Additional hints and tips for culinary preparation tell how to preserve, store and cook mushrooms, and clearly illustrates all the poisonous and possibly deceptive kinds of mushrooms which the picker is most likely to come across. |
Fungi of Southern Australia
by Neale Bougher, Katrina Syme
1998-06-01 |
| List Price: $75.00
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Introduces the reader to a broad sample of the fungi in Australia (typified by south-western representatives), offering both detailed botanical description and superb color illustration for each species described. The first six chapters provide an overview, detailing the climate, how species are described, how to collect and process fungi, and an outline of the main fungal groups. The final, largest, section provides detailed species descriptions, alphabetically arranged in the following five groups: Ascomycota; Phragmobasidiomycetes; and Holobasidiomycetes Groups 1, 2, and 3. |
The Encyclopedia of Fungi of Britain and Europe: Indentifies 1,000 Species With Color Photographs
by Michael Irwin Jordan
1998-05-01 |
| List Price: $45.00
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The Encyclopedia of Fungi, a large book, covers over 1,000 species. Each page has a description and color photo of three species. Both the descriptions and photographs are very well done. There is good introductory material and keys to the genera. One very nice feature that other mushrooms guides should emulate is the chart of colors. With this chart of 88 color swatches, if the author says the fungus is "luteous", you don not have to guess at the color. Even if you live in the Western United States, you will still find this book very useful. Many of the common and distinctive mushrooms are found in temperate areas all over the northern hemisphere.
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A Field Guide to Mushrooms : North America (Peterson Field Guides)
by Kent H. McKnight, Vera B. McKnight
1998-02-15 |
| List Price: $21.00
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More than 1000 species of mushrooms--over 500 illustrated and described in detail.
Over 700 paintings and drawings that reveal subtle field marks that cannot be captured in photographs. Concise descriptions face the illustrations for quick identification without page flipping. The most accurate and detailed descriptions of any guide with precise comparisons of similar species. |
Mushrooms of Northeastern North America
by Alan E. Bessette, David W. Fischer
1997-09-01 |
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Over 1500 species are included in the extensive keys in this volume, with over 600 species given a full description. The others are given a mini-description right in the keys. These short descriptions can make the keys harder to follow, but it is nice to have some comments on the species not given the full treatment. Each of the species given a full description is illustrated by a small but good quality photograph. One complaint about the book is how the photographs are grouped together by type (e.g. all agarics), separate from the descriptions. Ideally the photographs should near the descriptions, but here the publisher has not even provided a page number for the description from the photograph or a page number for the photograph from the description. Also, the keys are difficult and almost impossible to use. Still, this is a quality, comprehensive guide to the fungi of northeastern North America and serious mushroomers living in that area will find this book essential. |
Magic Mushrooms Around the World
by Jochen Gartz
1997-09-01 |
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Introducing a rich variety of psychoactive mushrooms from around the globe -including some rare and little-known species - the author describes dozens of species and covers a broad range of mushroom- related topics, from distribution maps to comparisons of cultural attitudes to laboratory analyses of active ingredients. |
Matsutake Mushroom: The White Goldrush of the 1990s : A Guide and Journal
by Jerry Guin
1997-07-01 |
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This journal and guide by Jerry Guin explains how to identify, harvest, sell, and buy the matsutake, best time to hunt, some better growing locations, Forest Service regulations, what you should bring, special tips to make finding matsutakes easier. It documents this modern day goldrush in Washington, Oregon and northern California as seen through the eyes of a man who knows the wild mushroom market first as a picker, and later as a buyer. |
Mushrooms of Northeastern North America
by Alan E. Bessette, David W. Fischer
1997-06-01 |
| List Price: $45.00
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Over 1500 species are included in the extensive keys in this volume, with over 600 species given a full description. The others are given a mini-description right in the keys. These short descriptions can make the keys harder to follow, but it is nice to have some comments on the species not given the full treatment. Each of the species given a full description is illustrated by a small but good quality photograph. One complaint about the book is how the photographs are grouped together by type (e.g. all agarics), separate from the descriptions. Ideally the photographs should near the descriptions, but here the publisher has not even provided a page number for the description from the photograph or a page number for the photograph from the description. Also, the keys are difficult and almost impossible to use. Still, this is a quality, comprehensive guide to the fungi of northeastern North America and serious mushroomers living in that area will find this book essential.
This is the paperback edition. |
The Mushroom Manual
by Lorentz C. Pearson
1997-06-01 |
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This book is designed primarily for those who are looking to collect mushrooms for eating purposes. It provides a basic introduction to terminology, but little other scientific information. As a brief guide it is very good; it focuses on common mushrooms found in the midwest. The keys are fairly cursory because of the necessary length constraint, but the discussions of major groups of mushrooms are interesting and fairly informative. |
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