Stalking The Healthful Herbs (19660101)
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0911469060 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 301 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Awesome read!" according to Gwizard. Euell Gibbons is very inspiring!. Excellent book Timothy D. Vasicek If you have read Euell Gibbon's "Stalking the wild asparagus", then you'll love this book like I do. Euell was the original forager, a true expert. A must have for any foraging enthusiast.. "Informative, practical, and inspirational!" according to Merriwether, Foraging Texas. My scores are based on the usefulness of this book for foraging medicinal plants.Overall rating: Informative, practical, and inspirational! Merriwether, Foraging Texas My scores are based on the usefulness of this book for foraging medicinal plants.Overall rating: 4 starsNumber of plants: 3 starsTreatment lists: 4 starsTreatment details: 4 starsPicture types: simple line drawingsPlant identification: 2 starsWho will find it useful: novices to expert foragers & herbalists, backpackers, hunters, preparedness-minded folkNotes: Euell Gibbons is one part naturalist, one part poet, and one part . starsNumber of plants: Informative, practical, and inspirational! My scores are based on the usefulness of this book for foraging medicinal plants.Overall rating: Informative, practical, and inspirational! Merriwether, Foraging Texas My scores are based on the usefulness of this book for foraging medicinal plants.Overall rating: 4 starsNumber of plants: 3 starsTreatment lists: 4 starsTreatment details: 4 starsPicture types: simple line drawingsPlant identification: 2 starsWho will find it useful: novices to expert foragers & herbalists, backpackers, hunters, preparedness-minded folkNotes: Euell Gibbons is one part naturalist, one part poet, and one part . starsNumber of plants: 3 starsTreatment lists: Informative, practical, and inspirational! Merriwether, Foraging Texas My scores are based on the usefulness of this book for foraging medicinal plants.Overall rating: 4 starsNumber of plants: 3 starsTreatment lists: 4 starsTreatment details: 4 starsPicture types: simple line drawingsPlant identification: 2 starsWho will find it useful: novices to expert foragers & herbalists, backpackers, hunters, preparedness-minded folkNotes: Euell Gibbons is one part naturalist, one part poet, and one part . starsTreatment details: Informative, practical, and inspirational! Merriwether, Foraging Texas My scores are based on the usefulness of this book for foraging medicinal plants.Overall rating: 4 starsNumber of plants: 3 starsTreatment lists: 4 starsTreatment details: 4 starsPicture types: simple line drawingsPlant identification: 2 starsWho will find it useful: novices to expert foragers & herbalists, backpackers, hunters, preparedness-minded folkNotes: Euell Gibbons is one part naturalist, one part poet, and one part . starsPicture types: simple line drawingsPlant identification: 2 starsWho will find it useful: novices to expert foragers & herbalists, backpackers, hunters, preparedness-minded folkNotes: Euell Gibbons is one part naturalist, one part poet, and one part . starsTreatment lists: Informative, practical, and inspirational! Merriwether, Foraging Texas My scores are based on the usefulness of this book for foraging medicinal plants.Overall rating: 4 starsNumber of plants: 3 starsTreatment lists: 4 starsTreatment details: 4 starsPicture types: simple line drawingsPlant identification: 2 starsWho will find it useful: novices to expert foragers & herbalists, backpackers, hunters, preparedness-minded folkNotes: Euell Gibbons is one part naturalist, one part poet, and one part . starsTreatment details: Informative, practical, and inspirational! Merriwether, Foraging Texas My scores are based on the usefulness of this book for foraging medicinal plants.Overall rating: 4 starsNumber of plants: 3 starsTreatment lists: 4 starsTreatment details: 4 starsPicture types: simple line drawingsPlant identification: 2 starsWho will find it useful: novices to expert foragers & herbalists, backpackers, hunters, preparedness-minded folkNotes: Euell Gibbons is one part naturalist, one part poet, and one part . starsPicture types: simple line drawingsPlant identification: 2 starsWho will find it useful: novices to expert foragers & herbalists, backpackers, hunters, preparedness-minded folkNotes: Euell Gibbons is one part naturalist, one part poet, and one part
Here Euell Gibbons shows the reader how to enjoy the culinary and medicinal virtues of herbs and wild plants. Drawn from the author's wide knowledge of plants as well as from the lore of native Americans and early settlers, the information is supplemented by nutritionists at Pennsylvania State University who worked with Gibbons on analysis of the entries.
From Publishers Weekly Even those who have no intention of combing the countryside for cleavers, slippery elm or velvet dock will welcome the return to print of this 1966 classic guide to American wild herbs for its wealth of knowledge. Illustrated. Many since the late Gibbons ( Stalking the Wild Asparagus ) have written about the medicinal and nutritive properties of indigenous flora, and nouvelle cuisine has domesticated the notion of edible flowers, but the author's good-humored approach to preparing pine tree needles, boiled nettles and similar treats establishes his as a uniquely charming voice in the self-important world of health foods ("I would like to think that it was sheer genius that caused me to get all the proportions right in my first