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Mushrooms (Collins GEM) | 
| Author: Patrick Harding
Creator: Alan Outen
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book
Buy New: £4.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 2556
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 4.4 x 3.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0007183070
Dewey Decimal Number: 579
EAN: 9780007183074
ASIN: 0007183070
Publication Date: September 6, 2004
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A great little guide November 22, 2008
This is a great book to give more detail on this sort of wild food for anyone learning survival skills or bushcraft. I recently bought it to accompany the new Trueways Survival Skills with John 'Lofty' Wiseman [Interactive DVD] - together they make a superb way to quickly get up to speed with living off the land and especially survival skills or bushcraft.
To summarise, this is a great little book.
 Interesting and Informative August 10, 2007
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
All the Collins Gem books are great for keeping in your pocket if you are out on a field trip for the day and this one is no exception. The photographs are first class and the descriptions of the individual fungi clear and concise. The book describes almost 240 different species of mushroom and toadstool (when you've read the book you will know the difference). Their habitats, size, appearance and also whether they are poisonous or not.
They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and with fungi it could be fatal. The book goes out of its way to show which fungi are edible and which are poisonous. Personally I prefer to err on the side of caution and buy mine from the supermarket.
A very compact source of good information August 9, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I went on a fungas foray with the author of this book last year and it was extremely interesting and great fun. This book, although small, is packed full of the stuff I learned and much more information that gives me the confidence to go hunting on my own. It's the perfect size to pop in your pocket or basket while out walking.
One of the great things about it is that it identifies other species that can be confused with what you might have found. This allows you to double check and should make any mushroom hunting a lot safer.
a good pocket-sized guide, well illustrated November 28, 2002
32 out of 32 found this review helpful
This little guide identifies a wide selection of funghi by reference to excellent photographs - much better than many of the artists' representations in some of the larger, dearer and more scholarly books.
There are short,sharp details about habitat, season and something of each specimen's histology. The book errs on the side of caution when dealing with edibility - so this is a book which could be given to a keen young explorer without too much risk of poisoning!
We keep a copy in the foraging basket, and refer to the more heavyweight volumes when we get home. It has much to recommend it.
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