A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guide Series)

Peterson, Lee

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1977

About this Item

Hard cover, 12mo, in green decorated cloth with titles in green and vignette plant art in black to front board and spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated and labelled plant specimens on endpapers. 37 color plates as well as in-text black and white illustration. Free and nutritous, foraging for wild food is, by long tradition, an important survival skill. Includes identification guide to poisonous plants, as well as ways to prepare foraged food safely. Area of coverage: 37 states, and north into Canada. 330 pp. CONDITION: Fine in a fine d/j, now in mylar.

Seller Inventory # 9409

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guide Series)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1977
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Lee Peterson, Roger Tory Peterson
• Edition: First Edition, first printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • Gardening
  • Biology