Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants

Designed for both beginners and experienced explorers this guide is fully illustrated and comprehensive. It includes practical information, time-tested nature skills, and new ways to rediscover the earth around us.

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 other plants we find around us.