Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I own over two dozen books on foraging. Most are awkward reference material at best. Nine I have read cover to cover. Sam Thayer's three (besides this one, Nature's Garden and Incredible Wild Edibles) are the only ones I have read through twice, and they are still the most often referenced books on my shelf. In fact I will go so far as to say that the basic education provided here on how to go about locating food plants, and making identifications generally is enough that by the time you have read The Forager's Harvest and Nature's Garden, not only will you know how to recognize a number of edible plants, but you will actually know what you're doing in a way that allows you to use the internet to learn specifics of other species. There is simply no other book that does this. Traditional field guides include hundreds of species of plants with far too little detail to identify with the confidence needed to actually eat them. This book is the only one I've seen that provides enough information about each subject to actually use the plant with this as the sole reference. I just wish he would write a mushroom book too!