A Peterson Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants: North America North of Mexico

by Steven Foster and Roger A. Caras

Book Overview

This essential guide to safety in the field features 90 venomous animals and more than 250 poisonous plants and fungi. The 340 line drawings make identification fast and simple; 160 species are also illustrated with color photographs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039593608X
• ISBN13: 9780395936085
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.5" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

A Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants

Keep this with you in your pack or camp. Good reference, easy to read. The examples, pictures and drawing are very useful.

Quickly Received in Great Condition

Product arrived as guaranteed, and the book delivered everything promised. Wish there were more color pictures of the actual plants; but overall, it's a GREAT field guide for someone just starting out in learning about what to avoid while hiking, camping, or just walking through the woods.

Great field guide

perterson field guides are the best Ive found. I appreciate the easy to use guides and the content is excellent.

Before you know what's edible, know what'll kill you!

Before you dash out into the woods and pick some plants you think are edible, you might want to get this book and know definitely what will kill you, or really mess up your body. Excellent info, bright color pictures, and written for an easy understanding, this book should be in any nature enthusiast's library, right next to Newcomb's Wildflower Guide, possibly the best plant identification guide around.

i didn't know that!

did you know that boxwood, the ever present suburban hedge, is mildly poisonous? i didn't! a very useful book to reference for what not to touch, eat, or annoy.