Customer Reviews
A great little guide - By: Rebecca Boo, 22 Nov 2008 
This is a great book to give more detail on this sort of wild food for anyone learning survival skills or bushcraft. I recently bought it to accompany the new Trueways Survival Skills with John 'Lofty' Wiseman [Interactive DVD] - together they make a superb way to quickly get up to speed with living off the land & especiallly survival skills or bushcraft.
To summarise, this is a great little book.
Interesting and Informative - By: J. Chippindale, 10 Aug 2007 
All the Collins Gem books are great for keeping in your pocket if you are out on a field trip for the day & this one is no exception. The photographs are first class & the descriptions of the individual fungi clear & concise. The book describes almost 240 different species of mushroom & toadstool (when you've read the book you will know the difference). Their habitats, size, appearance & also whether they are poisonous or not.
They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing & with fungi it could be fatal. The book goes out of its way to show which fungi are edible & which are poisonous. Personallly I prefer to err on the side of caution & buy mine from the supermarket.
A very compact source of good information - By: Gary Nicklin, 09 Aug 2007 I went on a fungas foray with the author of this book last year & it was extremely interesting & great fun. This book, although smalll, is packed full of the stuff I learned & much more information that gives me the confidence to go hunting on my own. It's the perfect size to pop in your pocket or basket while out walking.
One of the great things about it is that it identifies other species that can be confused with what you might have found. This alllows you to double check & should make any mushroom hunting a lot safer.
a good pocket-sized guide, well illustrated - By: DL, 28 Nov 2002 This little guide identifies a wide selection of funghi by reference to excellent photographs - much better than many of the artists' representations in some of the larger, dearer & more scholarly books.
There are short,sharp details about habitat, season & something of each specimen's histology. The book errs on the side of caution when dealing with edibility - so this is a book which could be given to a keen young explorer without too much risk of poisoning!
We keep a copy in the foraging basket, & refer to the more heavyweight volumes when we get home. It has much to recommend it.
