Field guide to edible wild plants

by Bradford Angier

Book Overview

First-ever revision of a classic guidebookEssential information on each plant's characteristics, distribution, and edibility as well as updated taxonomy and 18 new speciesHow to find, prepare, and eat... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811706168
• ISBN13: 9780811706162
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good book

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

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 were apparently as the native Americans had done. It is a very good companion book to some of the more recent works out there such as the North American Guide to Edible Wild Plants.

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 harder than it might seem, excepting for a few easy plants like cat tails, purslane, etc. I agree with a prior reviewer that absence of poisonous plants is unfortunate. Also, absence of scientific names is not good, since common names aren't reliable.

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!

Great book if you already know some plants...

And still ok if you're clueless. The book's small size, a convenience in the field, limits the amount of illustrations it can contain. For example, the entire gooseberry/currant family is represented by three pictures, all fitting on one page. The text, on the other hand, can't be matched. My suggestion would be to pair this book with a field guide to wild plants until you can recognise them by sight.