National Audubon Society Pocket Guide: Familiar Mushrooms
(Part of the National Audubon Society Pocket Guides Series)
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Book Overview
A portable, comprehensive field guide--brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. This streamlined volume contains an easy-to-use field guide identifying 80 familiar North American mushrooms, an outline of identifying mushrooms characteristics, the basics of when and where to look for mushrooms and certain distinguishing qualities of poisonous mushrooms. This pocket guide is teeming with information on this class of fungi; full-color photographs and descriptive line drawings, engaging mushroom lore on each individual mushroom species, specific identifying mushroom features, notes and warnings on each species' edibility and their poisonous lookalike counter-parts, geographical information and a guide to various mushroom family traits. Whether you are mushroom-hunting to photograph and paint them, studying them scientifically, gathering then for culinary purposes or just for the rewarding experience in itself, the National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Mushrooms is a handy reference guide to have by your side.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0679729844
ISBN13:9780679729846
Release Date:July 1990
Publisher:Knopf Publishing Group
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.41 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 4.1"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Mushrooms
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
My daughter loves this book. It has great photos and witty writing. We have looked at lots of fungi books and this one take the prize for easy to understand guide to mushrooms.
great pictures
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Nice photos of distinctive species of mushrooms. Good introduction for beginners. A nice reference book.
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