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Edible Wild Plants and Herbs: A Pocket Guide Paperback – February 16, 2001

by Alan M. Cvancara (Author)
3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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Ragged Mountain Press Pocket Guides are jam-packed with the no-frills, real-life advice and reassurance anyone heading out needs for a successful, safe, and rewarding trip. Designed for quick reference, Ragged Mountain Press Pocket Guides fit easily into a backpack, pocket, or dry bag, and are attractively packaged in water-resistant and tear-resistant covers. Ragged Mountain Press Pocket Guides offer the seasoned advice of some of the country’s most respected experts—an unparalleled reservoir of information in a compact package. Edible Wild Plants and Herbs provides concise, easy-to-understand details on the identification and edibility of 50 of the most common plants in the U.S. and Canada. Readers get a tutorial on preparing plants to eat and finding fresh water for cooking, as well as lists of common poisonous plants to avoid. Featuring sharp, revealing photographs that make identification a snap, this handsome field guide will be a cherished tool in every outdoor explorer’s kit.
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  1. Print length
    109 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
  4. Publication date
    February 16, 2001
  5. Dimensions
    4.3 x 0.5 x 8.1 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0071368272
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0071368278
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Like having a trusted guide at your side

If you can't take Alan Cvancara with you, take this book.

Ingenious, simple, and eminently practical, Edible Wild Plants and Herbs: A Ragged Mountain Press Pocket Guide is the quickest way to truly know and enjoy what's around you, whether you're in the backyard or the backcountry. Here are concise, easy-to-understand details to identify and use 50 common plants and herbs. Next to your water bottle, this book could be the most important item you pack.

Alan Cvancara, an ardent conservationist, has spent decades studying wild edible plants, and his sensible and responsible advice shows how to enjoy these useful plants while preserving their future. Here he has organized plants by season and by habitat--including forests, grasslands, deserts, tundras, freshwater shores, and seacoasts. Cvancara has carefully selected plants and herbs that are easy to identify, occur widely throughout the United States and Canada, and have more than one use. You'll learn four ways to eat yuccas and how to use them as a source of soap and needle and thread. You'll discover how rose petals work like bandages, and that cattails stuffed into boots provide wonderful insulation.

Here also are tips for finding water, vital nutrition information, and how to steer clear of common poisonous plants.

PACK IT and GO.

About the Author

Alan Cvancara, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of geology at the University of North Dakota and now resides in Wyoming. He has studied edible wild plants for more than 30 years and is the author of A Field Manual for the Amateur Geologist, Exploring Nature in Winter, At the Water's Edge, and Sleuthing Fossils.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press; 1st edition (February 16, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 109 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0071368272
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071368278
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.3 x 0.5 x 8.1 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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3.5 out of 5 stars
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BonezTheGoon
2.0 out of 5 stars I do not recommend this book.
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2014
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Black and white photo's that aren't very well done. Not well written and no where near anything comprehensive. At my (currently very lazy) estimation roughly the last 20% of the book is all about POISONOUS plants instead of edible plants. I can understand naming a poisonous plant in reference to an edible one that it might be confused for, but dedicating a completely separate section of the book to poisonous plants?!?! I do not recommend this book, find a better one.
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rachael
5.0 out of 5 stars good beginner book and WELL FORMATTED FOR E-BOOK
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2012
....and that's a rarity. The world of field guides is taking its sweet time adopting e-book technology, and most of those field guides that have been adapted for kindle are really awful, dysfunctional in terms of formatting and navigation. You'll never be reading a field guide sequentially from front to back. You need to be able to quickly flip to the relevant entry and on a kindle, that means a working table of contents, something that's bizarrely left out of many e-book field guides.

This one's good. It's easy to find your way around in, intuitive and well formatted. I've been using it a lot. I personally really like the style of grouping plants by the habitat they're found in, rather than an encyclopedia-style alphabetically ordered book. There are thousands and thousands of plant species out there; looking for edibles, it's not like you're going to walk outside and start systematically identifying every single growing thing around you until you hopefully find one that is useful. More realistically: you're on a hike in a desert, you flip to the desert chapter, familiarize yourself with the handful of easily identifiable edible desert plants, and then LOOK FOR THEM as you walk around. Excellent beginner text. Just fifty plants are covered so it's actually feasible to take in the information in this book without your eyes glazing over. Common poisonous plants and lookalikes are well covered too. I recommend.
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Randell Carter
4.0 out of 5 stars good accurate book on edible plants
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2013
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The book has great information on edible wild plants and herbs. The only drawback is the black and white pictures
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Patchoules
2.0 out of 5 stars Color photographs would be helpful
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2004
This pocket guide is very informative; however, every photograph inside this book of edible wild plants and herbs is black and white. This makes identifying plants and herbs a challenge.
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TotalEarthGirl
5.0 out of 5 stars Surviving Anywhere
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2003
This book will fit nice and neatly in any backpack. It's a must if your traveling through these areas listed in the book.
It goes through what plants or parts of trees you can eat, how to cook them, in different nature settings (woods, tundra, seashore).
It also teaches about poisonous plants and a chapter on how
to find water then purify it.
Very intesting and informational book.
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Jinious
2.0 out of 5 stars The cover of the book is coloured picture of the ...
Reviewed in Canada on September 6, 2017
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The cover of the book is coloured picture of the plant, so i assumed the pictures inside is also coloured. However, it is not coloured, all black and white. Which makes it very difficult to identify the plants.
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