Over 100 edible plants are listed, fully illustrated and described, together with recipes and other fascinating details on their use throughout the ages.Practical advice on how to pick along with information on countryside laws and regulations on picking wild plants helps you to plan your foray with a feast in mind.This is the ideal book for both nature lovers and cooks keen to enjoy what the countryside has to offer.

    These daily journal entries on hunting, fishing and exploring, written in camp during his many field trips in lower California, New Mexico, Canada, and Wisconsin, indicate the source of Leopold's ideas on land ethics found in his longer essays. The excerpts from these journals—many taken from notes written around a camp fire, spattered with a slapped mosquito or a drop of coffee—show in direct context what he did in his own leisure time. The essays are taken from more contemplative notes which were still in manuscript when Leopold died, fighting a grass fire in 1948. Round River has been edited by Leopold's son, Luna, a geologist well-known in the field of conservation. It is also illustrated throughout with line drawings by Charles W. Schwartz. All admirers of Leopold's work—indeed, all lovers of nature—will find this book richly rewarding.

    First published in 1972.

    

    In the fantastic sweep of 100 million years, Platt telescopes the drama for forests marching across continents creating a new world of life and then closes in on the minutest rituals of tree life to explain the mechanics and wonder of how sap runs.

    There are also entries for a further 117 rarer species. Readers will find out how to identify birds by shape, color and flight action, as well as learning about their evolution and navigation systems.

    No other book has ever looked so closely, so thoroughly, and so charmingly at this important and fragile ecological zone.

    Maps and illustrations enhancing the absorbing text.