Tom Brown's Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants

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Summary: New Age Plant book with poor illustration value.
Review: This book has SOME good info on some plant species, but it would be nice to know what they look like "in the wilderness." Half the book is just "filler". Tom Brown romanticizes plants, and "oneness" with nature. This book has been my biggest dissapointment.

Rating:
Summary: New Age Plant book with poor illustration value.
Review: This book has SOME good info on some plant species, but it would be nice to know what they look like "in the wilderness." Half the book is just "filler". Tom Brown romanticizes plants, and "oneness" with nature. This book has been my biggest dissapointment.

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Summary: One of the Best on "KNOWING" plants
Review: This is an excelent book just like all of Tom's books. It takes you past the usual explainations and gives you a chance to really "Know" the plants. It's not meant to take the place of other identification guides, it goes much more in depth, every plant has a fantastic story on it's use and Tom's personal experience with it. I have read most of Tom's books and plan to read them all, this one is no exception it's great.

Rating:
Summary: One of the Best on "KNOWING" plants
Review: This is an excelent book just like all of Tom's books. It takes you past the usual explainations and gives you a chance to really "Know" the plants. It's not meant to take the place of other identification guides, it goes much more in depth, every plant has a fantastic story on it's use and Tom's personal experience with it. I have read most of Tom's books and plan to read them all, this one is no exception it's great.

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Summary: Tom Brown's is different
Review: This one, in particular, is kind of like reading the earliest Tom Robbins novels (Another Roadside attraction, etc.). Beyond nostalgia, this is a wonderful book - a little too large and poorly illustrated to carry CARELESSLY into the woods - yet very useful and unique. Tom gives us a pre-New Age understanding of his plant friends - the ones we might most need or want to know - while spinning sentimental and spiritual threads that may help bind us to our use of this new knowledge. Collect the Peterson's and indepth holistic herbals, but don't pass up on Tom's.

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Summary: Entertaining Book And Educational
Review: Tom Brown Jr's stories about his experiences with Stalking Wolf and other ancients will keep you entertained while you learn about the divers benefits of plants. If Tom ever decides write part two, I will be in line for a second helping.