Wild, Edible & Medicinal Plants
Title | Wild, Edible & Medicinal Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Carol R. Biggs |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | |
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Edible and Medicinal Plans of the Northwest
Title | Edible and Medicinal Plans of the Northwest PDF eBook |
Author | J. Duane Sept |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2014-01 |
Genre | Medicinal plants |
ISBN | 9780973981988 |
Alaska's Wild Plants
Title | Alaska's Wild Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Janice Schofield Eaton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 110 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Cooking (Wild foods) |
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Profiles more than seventy wild, edible plants native to Alaska with color photographs and descriptions, and includes information on plant habitats, harvesting wild plants, and related topics.
Alaska's Wild Plants, Revised Edition
Title | Alaska's Wild Plants, Revised Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Janice J. Schofield |
Publisher | Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 2020-03-31 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1513262807 |
With bright color photographs and completely up-to-date information, this authoritative guidebook introduces adventurers and harvesters to more than 80 of Alaska's most common wild edible plants. Alaska’s Wild Plants is the perfect guide to tuck in your backpack as you explore Alaska’s lands. Now reorganized to be more user friendly with a new introduction to foraging, this informative book will help you discover the bounty of the land and its plants around you. Understand basic principles to foraging and easy plant preparations. Learn about each plant's nutritional content, and medicinal and culinary uses. Discover the habitats where the plant can be found and how to harvest it correctly. Identify the plant’s physical characteristics with an accompanying color photograph. Find more expert sources to continue your plant education. For explorers, foragers, harvesters, or just the casually interested, this book will help readers recognize Alaska’s most common edible plants, including chickweed, high bush cranberry, crowberry, sweet gale, and more.
Discovering Wild Plants
Title | Discovering Wild Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Janice J. Schofield |
Publisher | Anchorage : Alaska Northwest Books |
Total Pages | 376 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Plants, Edible |
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More than 130 plants (including trees, roots, wildflowers, herbs, seaweed, and mushrooms) from Alaska, Yukon Territory, through western Canada, to Washington, Oregon and northern California are profiled. Information provided includes precise botanical identification, history (New and Old World folk uses), harvest and habitat information, and recipes.
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures
Title | Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Helaine Selin |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 2428 |
Release | 2008-03-12 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 140204559X |
Here, at last, is the massively updated and augmented second edition of this landmark encyclopedia. It contains approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. The entries consist of fully updated articles together with hundreds of entirely new topics. This unique reference work includes intercultural articles on broad topics such as mathematics and astronomy as well as thoughtful philosophical articles on concepts and ideas related to the study of non-Western Science, such as rationality, objectivity, and method. You’ll also find material on religion and science, East and West, and magic and science.
Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants Alaska, Canada and Pacific Northwest Rainforest
Title | Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants Alaska, Canada and Pacific Northwest Rainforest PDF eBook |
Author | Carol R. Biggs |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 199 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780966919202 |
"These beautifully photographed, full-color, pocket-size field guides are the perfect companion for hikers, trail bikers, campers, and anyone else who enjoys getting out and seeing what nature has to offer. All the plants pictured and described in the two volumes, with three or four exceptions, range throughout the temperate rainforest of North America."