Tom Brown, Jr. began to learn hunting and tracking at the age of eight under the tutelage of an Apache elder, medicine man, and scout in Toms River, New Jersey, and is the author of 16 books on nature. Recently, he was the technical advisor on The Hunted, a major motion picture starring Tommy Lee Jones and Benecio Del Toro. In 1978, Tom founded the Tracker School in the New Jersey Pine Barrens where he offers more than 25 classes about wilderness survival and environmental protection.
Tom Brown's Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants
by Tom Brown, Heather Bolyn (Illustrator), Trip Becker (Illustrator)
Paperback
(Reprint)
$16.00
- ISBN-13: 9780425100639
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication date: 12/28/1986
- Series: Field Guide Series , #5
- Edition description: Reprint
- Pages: 256
- Sales rank: 94,003
- Product dimensions: 5.96(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.63(d)
- Age Range: 18Years
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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 all around us. This indispensible guide includes information on:
How to use every part of the plant—leaves, flowers, bark, bulbs, and roots
Where to find useful plants, and the best time of the year and stages of growth to harvest them
How to prepare delicious food dishes, soups, breads and teas from the riches of the great outdoors
An incredible range of experience-proven medicinal uses to treat headaches, burns, digestive disorders, skin problems, and a host of other maladies
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