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Tom Brown's Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants
For untold thousands of years, human beings have thrived on the nutritional and medicinal wealth of the plant life in the natural world. In these fascinating, wide-ranging, wonderfully informative stories, Tom Brown--director of the world-famous Tracking, Nature, and Wilderness Survival School--tells all about the uncommon benefits of the common trees, shrubs, flowers, and...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
December 15th 1986
by Berkley Trade
(first published 1985)
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"Grandson, when you can feel the same pain and suffering for a blade of grass ripped from the Earth as you do for that deer, you will truly be one with all things." Tom Brown Jr. writes this guide less for information some of which is available in other Field Guides like Peterson's, but to make a doorway to the experience of oneness. Thus his entries are divided into Description, Personality, Food and Medicine, and the Personality portions seem to be almost the most important. He tells tales the...more
This book tells the story of thirty plants and how they intersected the life of the outdoorsman Tom Brown Jr.
THe stories are touching and full of mysticism.
THe stories are touching and full of mysticism.
As it turns out, I had read this years ago. I gave away my original copy, since it hadn't been what I was looking for at the time. Looking at the book with more mature eyes, that was a mistake. While this book isn't an identification guide, it's a wonderful supplement to one. The writing style is friendly and approachable, like a storyteller at a campfire. The field guide to identification would have given me information, easily absorbed and then forgotten. This book is full of knowledge and, in...more
I would highly recommend all of Tom Brown, Jr's books.
Good information, but a bit too much waxing on about how he first encountered this amazing . . . (blah, blah, blah). Also, Tom Brown cannot cook. I don't care what he calls "tasty." It ain't tasty, but absolutely great to know if you need to find food.
Insightful, good stroytelling. Provides some information about a few plants. Provides a lot of information about developing an intuitive connection to nature.
One of the worst book ever written on the subject.
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Tom Brown, Jr. is an American naturalist, wilderness tracker and the author of numerous books, including a series of Field Guides. Brown attributes his tracking skills and his spiritual philosophy to the teachings of a Lipan Apache elder named Stalking Wolf, who instructed Brown during his childhood. Brown refers to Stalking Wolf as "Grandfather" in his writings.
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Jun 28, 2010 02:17pm