Mushrooms

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Mushrooms of North America : The Most Comprehensive Mushroom Guide Ever with over 1,000 Color Photos

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A beautiful and comprehensive guide to mushroom identification with over 1,250 detailed photographs of mushrooms and other fungi. September this year saw the publication of a new edition of his Vegetables (with Martyn Rix), and at the time of his death he was working on new editions of his two earliest books, Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland and Trees in Britain. His entry on the Death Cap, “the most deadly fungus known”, included the alarming information that, if ingested, an initial period of prolonged and violent vomiting and diarrhoea and severe abdominal pain is typically “followed by an apparent recovery, when the victim may ... think his ordeal over. Within a few days death results from kidney and liver failure.” Roger Phillips, ‘mushroom man’, forager, plantsman and photographer who produced a series of acclaimed field guides – obituary In 1970 he met the book designer David Larkin, for whom he did numerous book covers. It was Larkin who signed him up to publish his Wild Flowers of Britain (1977) with Pan/Macmillan.

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Roger Phillips: he cautioned that novice mushroom hunters should always have experts identify their finds He also served as chairman of the Society for the Protection of London Squares, helping to frustrate the incursions of developers, work for which he was appointed MBE in the 2010 New Year Honours. There is I think most of the mushrooms you will find in Ireland listed in this book, with very clear descriptions of what to look for. They are well categorised and the key is as detailed as you would hope for. There are also colour photos of every mushroom along with the description, which makes identification more intuitive. map. Multiple social features are integrated including being able to engage the wider user group in Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Shows only minor signs of wear, and very minimal markings inside (if any).

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In 1975 Roger Phillips began his life’s major work of photographing and publishing pictures of the World’s garden plants. Using modern photographic techniques, Roger set out to develop an encyclopedic collection of books to show the difference between plants as diverse as mosses, roses and annuals. His first book Wild Flowers of Britain was a huge success, selling 400,000 copies in the first year. He has since written 20 additional volumes (often with his co-author Martyn Rix) selling over 4.5million copies worldwide. Roger Phillips, who has died aged 88, was a self-taught plantsman and portrait photographer of plants, the author or co-author of numerous beautifully illustrated books, including guides to wild flowers and edible wild plants, roses and other garden flowers, fungi, and even fish.

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Meanwhile, his Mushrooms and Other Fungi of Great Britain and Europe (1981), Mushrooms (2006, with a foreword by David Bellamy) and, for transatlantic foragers, Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America (2005) earned him the soubriquet “the mushroom man”. Having sold more than 750,000 copies in Europe of his previous title on mushrooms, Roger Phillips's Mushrooms once again sets the benchmark. Quite simply, nobody with an interest in the subject can afford to be without this book. Called up to do National Service in the RAF, he was sent to Canada but resigned his commission, declaring himself a pacifist, and worked in a hospital, at the same time enrolling in night classes in painting at the Chelsea School of Art, later completing the full-time course. Phillips warned against using his guide – or any other – as the sole authority on edible fungi, advising that novices should always have experts identify their finds.