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The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised: Illustrated Guide to Foraging, Harvesting, and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms - Including new sections on growing your own incredible edibles and off-season collecting

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Mushroom guru Gary Lincoff escorts you through the cultural and culinary history of the mushroom, hunting and identifying wild mushrooms, mushroom safety, and on to preparing and serving the fungi. Stunning photographs and Lincoff’s fascinating anecdotes from the field will make you an instant mycophile. Gathering edible wild food is a wonderful way to forge a connection to the Earth. Mushrooms are the ultimate local food source; they grow literally everywhere, from mountains and woodlands to urban and suburban parks to your own backyard.The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised will enrich your understanding of the natural world and build an appreciation for an ancient, critically relevant, and useful body of knowledge. With great expertise, Lincoff provides a complete overview of edible mushrooms: from the mushroom’s earliest culinary awakening, through getting equipped for mushroom forays, to preparing and serving the fruits of the foray, wherever you live. Inside you’ll find:A brief, colorful history of mushroom hunting worldwideHow to get equipped for a mushroom forayA completely illustrated guide to the common wild edible mushrooms and their poisonous look-alikes, with information of psychedelic and psychotherapeutic mushroomsAn illustrated guide to medicinal mushroomsWhere to find your fare, and how to identify themHow to prepare and serve your fungiThirty delicious recipesFive appendices offer even more mushroom knowledge, with information on how to make mushroom artwork, mushroom cultivation, less common edible varieties, and winter hunting; plus find an essential guide to major poisonous mushrooms, symptoms of poisoning, and treatment. Whether you’re just starting out with the hobby or an experienced mycophile looking to add to your collection, The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised is your ideal guide. Read more


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quarry Books; Revised - Illustrated edition (June 15, 2017)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1631593013


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 17


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.62 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.05 x 0.65 x 9.95 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #28,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #30 in Mushrooms in Biological Sciences #39 in Outdoors & Nature Reference #49 in Hiking & Camping Instructional Guides


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Top Amazon Reviews

    • Top notch!
Excellent illustration's! Will cherish this book.
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2023 by Jane
    • Christmas gift and a book I already had
I bought this for my sister as a Christmas gift but I actually owned my own copy when the book just came out. It's not as complete as I hoped it would be but I still loved the design and feel of the book. This was actually my very first book on mushrooms and I believe my only book on mushrooms, so the information was outstanding beyond words when I first read it. There is this whole world of mycology and I suddenly realized just how understudied it is compared to botany and zoology. This book is more like an introduction to mushrooms than a complete book on mushrooms, but a book to live up to its title would make this book like ten times larger, or maybe smaller if you organize the images efficiently. People are right though, that there should be more images in this book, but there are a lot of images already. This book does offer a lot for the price, but for a complete hunter, it's certainly not so complete. Some people may feel overwhelmed by the graphic design of the pages, which I thought kind of resembles that skateboarder or jumpstyle aesthetic because of the bold colors and industrial-like dynamic, but I was totally into the book's layout. I didn't know anything about mushrooms either, so everything about this book just had me in love with it because of how attractive and informative it was. This book was $25 when I bought it but it was closer to $15 when I bought my sister's. I only take off a star because I must agree that the other reviews are justified in stating how the book title is not truly accurate, although I don't know how conceivable it would be to make a book with pictures of every mushroom in a practical and concise manner, especially if there are no concepts to categorize mushrooms in an efficient manner. I would organize a book with look alikes right next to mushrooms. There are still probably thousands of mushrooms that don't even have names, so I just hope more people get into mycology. I already have my bachelor's degree so it's too late for me to jump over. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2021 by Alvar
    • This book is great for both beginners and experienced mushroom hunters.
I really like that this book has lots of great photos of mushrooms, and the crucial info on the different mushrooms is laid out in an easy to find format.
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2022 by Dustin Carl Granger
    • Superb: The DK Guide To Mushrooms!
You know those wonderful DK travel guides that are SO good that you read them four times before you even go on vacation . . . including staying up til 11:30 pm with your honey being cranky for you doing so, are still reading them while standing even 300 yards away from the Eiffel Tower, are filled with info, tips and beautiful photographs ad infinitum, and once you are finished with them have a gazillion notes, crimps and bookmarks in them they look like a porcupine? Well, this book is exactly like those . . . except it's 100 times better! Absolutely superb! Gary Lincoff was one of if not THE world's leading mushroom authorities. (That alone should suffice for a reason to buy this book, don't you think?) The book is well-organized, documented and illustrated -- again, think DK travel guides -- and is ALSO light-weight and flexible to, yes, take with you on your foraging. (An important practical feature of this book actually that you will appreciate on your first outing.) Mr. Lincoff begins with mushroom gathering practices from around the world; proceeds with A-Z instructions of a mushroom hunt (i.e., what to do, where to search, what to wear, etc.); then, the bulk of the book, delves into the all important identification characteristics of the major mushrooms families; followed by medicinal mushrooms, what to properly do with the harvest including several recipes, and concludes with several appendices (cultivation, winter hunting, etc.), ALL of which, again, is illustrated with endless photographs, tables and tips. SUPERB! Are you getting the picture of how excellent this book is? I simply cannot say enough good things about it and highly recommend it! One more important note. If you are not aware of its publisher, Quarto Publishing Group, please look them up! I sadly admit that I hadn't heard of them prior to buying this book . . . but they are simply superb in the variety of topics they cover and how thoroughly they do so ALL at an affordable price: look, for example, how much book you are getting for your money with this book. In today's world, that is a service to us all for which Quarto should be thanked! Thank you, Quarto! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2019 by Lee
    • Mushroom fluff
Too much fluff. Not enough substance. Decent overall.
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2022 by Bruce DeLoatch
    • An excellent book when paired with a companion guide
This is an excellent book on Mushrooms, but not the only book on mushrooms that you should own. It is an excellent guide for a beginner like me and has information that even experienced mushroom hunters would find valuable. The Complete Mushroom Hunter Revised has beautiful full color photos, a wealth of information on various aspects of mushrooms, and useful details on hunting, collecting, and preparing mushrooms, along with mushroom lore from around the world, and incredible helpful tips. That being said, one must couple this with a field identification guide. My choice was the National Audubon Society "Field Guide to Mushrooms". The Complete Mushroom Hunter is not a field guide, nor is it the size and shape that would be friendly to carry along on a walk through the woods or park unless you chose a large-ish messenger bag or backpack. Furthermore, while this book can help you identify some species of mushrooms, it lacks the comprehensiveness of the Audubon Field Guide or other such tome. The Complete Mushroom Hunter will help you forage and identify common edible mushrooms and medicinal mushrooms along with their poisonous look-alikes. It will not, however, help you identify the many hundreds of other North American mushrooms you may encounter while looking for the common edible and medicinal varieties. I am very pleased with my purchase and would absolutely recommend this book to others. Happy Hunting! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2018 by Spacemonkey
    • Good book
I like the content of book. It talks about poisonous look a likes but does not good enough photos for beginning ‘shroomers
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2021 by C. Coe
    • Interesting fun reading material
Fun
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2021 by Hannah Parry

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