Mushrooms

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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. 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.”

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Unsurpassed in both illustrative and descriptive detail, Mushrooms contains over 1,250 photographs, often showing the specimens in various stages of growth, and includes all the latest botanical and common names as well as current ecological information on endangered species.

Roger has written and presented two major six-part TV series on gardening (BBC & Channel 4). Famed for his ebullient personality and garish red glasses, he has become a well-recognised figure in the world of gardening. Roger Phillips: he cautioned that novice mushroom hunters should always have experts identify their finds Phillips presented or co-presented two television series based on his books on gardening, The Quest for the Rose (1994, BBC Two) and The 3,000 Mile Garden (1995, PBS), in which he and the US gardener Lesley Land compared and contrasted their gardening methods and preferences. Mushrooms of North America : The Most Comprehensive Mushroom Guide Ever with over 1,000 Color Photos

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Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Shows only minor signs of wear, and very minimal markings inside (if any). 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”.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. His first book, Wild Flowers of Britain (1977), sold 400,000 copies in its first year. He went on to publish more than 30 photographic field guides (often written with Martyn Rix) which have sold more than 4.5 million copies worldwide. A beautiful and comprehensive guide to mushroom identification with over 1,250 detailed photographs of mushrooms and other fungi. 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. map. Multiple social features are integrated including being able to engage the wider user group in