Mushrooming without Fear - Tapa dura

If, like me, you have always been unsure and so avoided them unless they were in a punnet with a label on, then I highly recommend this book to dispel your fear and allow you to start enjoying nature s wonderful larder of these forest floor fruits. --Bushcraft & Survival Skills Magazine

In Mushrooming Without Fear, Alex has adopted a different method. Do yourself a favour: get some of the knowledge and get out among the trees. Now is the time. --The Times

This book promises to dispel every fungi forager s fears about picking a deadly species. --The Field

*INCLUDES DETACHABLE FIELD GUIDE CARD* People love mushrooms. They want to pick them and eat them. but when they get home and try to check them, the fears crowd in. The reference books are vague. Too many dangerous look-alikes. Is the colour in that photograph exaggerated? A field mushroom suddenly seems worryingly like a Destroying Angel....the mushrooms are all discarded. Here is a mushrooming guide with a totally new, positive approach. Forget all the other 500 species. You only need to know these twelve. And you need to know them fully, without a shadow of a doubt. Alex Schwab's mushrooming rules are few but they are fixed rules. His key identification points leave no room for uncertainty. And he promises you these mushrooms will all taste delicious. Mushrooming without fear for the first time.