A Country Herbal

by Lesley Gordon

Book Overview

This work is a comprehensive compendium of useful plants and the legends surrounding them. The author has collected intriguing details about the history of herbs and any supernatural properties... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0831744464
• ISBN13: 9780831744465
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

traditional book

I enjoy having this book mainly as interesting reading. It is extensively illustrated (the mix of historical images also point of interest, making it nice to look through and so on). Although it does not cover all herbs that are relatively common to us nowadays, it writes in depth on those that it does, giving traditional uses, i.e. medicinal and culinary (gives a few recipes here and there) and on magical uses, although not in detail and less frequently. This book is not so good as a point of reference for herbs you buy, considering they might not neccessarily be in there(!), and also that it is less of a brief factual book; as said above, buy for interesting reading on traditional, slightly 'background' knowledge of herbs.