- Hardcover: 959 pages
- Publisher: Ten Speed Pr; Rev Sub edition (Oct 1986)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0898151708
- ISBN-13: 978-0898151701
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 5.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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Simply the best and most complete mushroom field guide and reference book, MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED includes descriptions and keys to more than 2,000 species of mushrooms, with more than 950 photographs. Mushroom authority David Arora provides a beginner's checklist of the 70 most distinctive and common mushrooms, plus detailed chapters on terminology, classification, habitats, mushroom cookery, mushroom toxins, and the meanings of scientific mushroom names. Beginning and experienced mushroom hunters everywhere will find MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED a delightful, informative, and indispensible companion.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Someone wrote that the only minus of this book is the lack of many colour photographs, but I found this to be a good choice for this kind of book. People who start studying mushrooms are often distracted by those wonderful, packed-up with stunning colour photographs books, and the result is that they often forget to care about the really important features for identification. What Arora's guide gives you is just this... it forces you to observe your mushroom the right way, it gives you plenty of useful keys. Starting to know mushrooms with this book in hand is surely a good choice. And living in Italy, I really regret there is no such guide for European fungi. Also look out for the very good introductions to families and genera.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The best treatment of West Coast mushrooms available today. Using Arora's concise descriptions, I have increased my knowledge of fungi with each foray. This is an enjoyable and informative text that is littered with fungi stories. When is the next edition arriving?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
More information than the typical hunter would likely use. A good mix of factual knoledge and personal experience. Very entertaining and easy to understand.
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Authoritative, comprehensive and a hoot to read!
If you're looking for the one fail-safe book on wild mushrooms, this is it. The keys contained within it are both comprehensive and easy to follow, and (as far as I can tell)... Read more
Published on 23 April 1998
A Shroomers Bible
Contains lots of cosmopolitan species. So the book is great for European readers. The ONLY minus is a lack of color photos, but the B&W pictures are good. Read more
Published on 28 Oct 1997
necessary reading
If you don't own this one, then you are not serious about mushrooms! A comprehensive guide that is easy to follow. Read more
Published on 22 Oct 1997
Putting the fun back in fungi
If you can only have one book on mushrooms - I pity you. You're missing out on a lot. But, if you can only have one, then this is the one you should have. Read more
Published on 7 May 1997
MD rules
Arora's book isn't as long on color photos as, say, the Audobon guide, but who cares? The book's thoroughly comprehensive key, which takes you down to the specific level in many... Read more
Published on 11 Mar 1997
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