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Title: Growing Wild Mushrooms by Bob Harris, Susan Neri, David Tatelman ISBN: 0930180127 Publisher: Homestead Book Company Pub. Date: 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67
Rating: 2
Summary: Not Quite Worth The Price
Comment: Apparently, this book was written to cater to those interested in hallucinogenic fungi. I initially bought this book in the hopes that it would teach me how to set up a cultivation operation focused primarily on edible, gourmet mushrooms. What I got instead was a poorly organized book rife with errors. The text has almost nothing to say about growing edible mushrooms. Rather, it is basically little more than a souped-up underground manual for the cultivation of hallucinogenic or so-called 'magic' mushrooms.
To demonstrate how erroneous this book is, the author begins the book by saying that fungi are plants! As any good student of biology knows, fungi lack chlorophyll, thus can not be considered plants, and occupy their own, separate kingdom. These and other gross errors throughout the text make it unfit as a starting point for those interested in mushroom cultivation.
The book is poorly organized, and places way too much emphasis on the psilocybe mushrooms, with passing reference to the cultivation of Pleurotus (oyster) mushrooms. In addition to some gratuitous color photos of a variety of Psilocybe mushrooms, and a few poorly placed black and white photos, this unremarkable book comes without an index, references, or supplementary materials. Furthermore, for the money you spend, you will not get much more than eighty six pages devoted to terse methods for locating, identifying, and cultivating the Psilocybe mushrooms (and this even is at a very low level).
The title of this book should actually be: 'Growing Hallucinogenic Mushrooms'. For those interested in Psilocybe mushrooms, this book may serve as an adequate reference. For individuals interested in the edible and gourmet mushrooms, a good starting point is Paul Stamets' utilitarian book 'The Mushroom Cultivator' and his comprehensive, though sometimes off-beat 'Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms'.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mushrooms Galore!
Comment: This is a great book, and at no. 137,000 this Bob Harris' book on Mushrooms seems all set to pass the other Bob Harris' book on Chomskian analysis of how dumb all those journalists are, excepting of course Mssrs. Cohen and Solomon.
Rating: 4
Summary: Growing Wild Mushrooms
Comment: Growing Wild Mushrooms is a good book for a biggining Mycologist. It runs through the basic procedures from making an agar medium to harvesting. But what makes this book worth a four star rating is it's wonderful color photos. It's one thing to read text, but quite another to to see clear illustrations. I would recocgmend this book to any aspiring Mycologist
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Title: Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home by Paul Stamets, J. S. Chilton ISBN: 0961079800 Publisher: Agarikon Pr Pub. Date: October, 1984 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets ISBN: 1580081754 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Hallucinogenic and Poisonous Mushroom: Field Guide by Gary P. Menser, Gery P. Menser ISBN: 0914171895 Publisher: Ronin Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi by David Arora ISBN: 0898151694 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: October, 1986 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Peyote: And Other Psychoactive Cacti by Adam Gottlieb, Larry Todd, Derek Westlund ISBN: 091417195X Publisher: Ronin Publishing Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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