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.
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Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world's greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars. These editions include updated material by Michael O'Brien, Paul Lehman, Bill Thompson III, Michael DiGiorgio, Larry Rosche, and Jeffrey A. Gordon.
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Steven Foster is the author or co-author of seventeen books, including National Geographic's A Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine (2006, with Rebecca Johnson), a 2007 New York Public Library "Best of Reference." He is senior author of three Peterson Field Guides, including A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs (with Dr. James A. Duke), 2nd edition, 2000, A Field Guide to Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs with Christopher Hobbs, (2002), and A Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants of North America (with Roger Caras, 1995). My goal is simply to explore the relationship between people and plants in words and images. My travels have taken me to every continent except Antarctica, mostly in search of medicinal plants to photograph from the Amazon rainforest to the highlands of Vietnam. In 1974, I began my career at the Herb Department of the Sabbathday Lake, Maine, Shaker Community, America's oldest herb business dating to 1799. It has been an extraordinary journey, and it is my pleasure to share my experience through my books.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By Urban Medic
Format:Paperback
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.
17 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
My little brother just gave me this field guide. I was shocked to see a picture of a completely harmless Scarlet Kingsnake on the cover of a field guide to Venemous Animals.
I like the field guide, but please people, if you see the snake on the cover - understand it is a Kingsnake and completely harmless, not a Coral snake which is probably what they intended to have on the cover.
Coral snakes do not have red bands between two black bands, and the type of bands they have are quite different.
If you see a Coral snake, please don't kill it either - leave it alone, but especially do not kill a harmless Scarlet Kingsnake thinking it was a Coral snake. Hopefully the next edition will fix this embarrasing mistake.
I like the field guide, but please people, if you see the snake on the cover - understand it is a Kingsnake and completely harmless, not a Coral snake which is probably what they intended to have on the cover.
Coral snakes do not have red bands between two black bands, and the type of bands they have are quite different.
If you see a Coral snake, please don't kill it either - leave it alone, but especially do not kill a harmless Scarlet Kingsnake thinking it was a Coral snake. Hopefully the next edition will fix this embarrasing mistake.
17 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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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.
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Need to know.
An excellent source book of detailed descriptions of what we all need to know to make sure we are not eating the wrong thing!! Read more
Published 9 days ago by pat
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useful!
Tons of useful information! this might save my life one day. I do a lot out doors and in new areas so this book is going to be a permanent addition to my camp pack.
Published 1 month ago by Audrey Schuster
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How can you go Wrong?
It's a Petersen's Field Guide. Need I say more? Still the staple for referencing all types of species. Money well spent.
Published 2 months ago by GA5700
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What I expected
My son and I really enjoyed looking through the pictures. I do not think you could have a book like this without really good pictures.
Published 3 months ago by Emilee White
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Book
I really enjoy this book because I travel and camp alot. It gives me the chance to explore and know what I am looking at, as I see them.
Published 4 months ago by LKL
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Thanks
More color pictures would be appreciated (only costs a few cents for the ink), but other than that, very satisfied.
Published 4 months ago by Nicole M. Vasickanin
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This was a great gift
My boyfriend was very pleased with getting this book. He has enjoyed multiple books by this author.
Thanks again for the book.
Thanks again for the book.
Published 4 months ago by Autumn
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Exactly as promised
Ordered this book to replace one lost in a move and this one was in better shape than the one we lost. Exactly as offered and shipped quickly. Love it!
Published 11 months ago by J. Webster
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Perfect all 'round Guide
I purchased this guide for my son and he has already put it to good use identifing several plants and insects around our property. Read more
Published 15 months ago by C. M. Sessions
5.0 out of 5 stars
Peterson is well known for a reason
I ordered one of these for a young boy who is always asking about the poisonous creepy crawlies we have in another part of the country. Read more
Published 18 months ago by BuBuBear
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- Reptiles and Amphibians (Peterson Field Guide Color-In Books) by Sarah Anne Hughes in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Field guide by Terry Collins in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- American Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to Plants Indigenous to and Naturalized in the United States Which Are Used in Medicine by Charles F. Millspaugh on page 93, and Back Matter
- The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America (Comstock Book) by Jonathan A. Campbell on page 9, and Back Matter
- Reptiles and Amphibians (Encyclopedia of the Animal World) by John Stidworthy in Back Matter
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- The Land between the Rivers: Thomas Nuttall's Ascent of the Arkansas, 1819 by Russell M. Lawson in Back Matter
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