An Excellent Hip-Pocket Guide and Nothing More.

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	• All That the Rain Promises, and More ...: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms David Arora Ten Speed Press, 1991 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 29 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

More than a basic guide

All That the Rain Promises, and More ...: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms is more than just a field guide, it is an entertaining book packed with information, photos, and recipes. It's also the perfect size for mushroom hunting trips, as it won't take up all the room in your basket. I have used this book since I started mushroom hunting four years ago, and it was well worth the money.

for westerners, a must-have

I got this a few years ago at a class Arora taught in Ft Bragg. I keep it with my hiking supplies because I certainly can't carry Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi around with me. This one is a great read and is enough, with its fine photos, to do decent field identification.

I can understand that people in other areas might be disappointed in the western focus, but be aware that the 1986 MD has a broader geographic scope.

Don't think you can beat Arora for mycological knowledge and he communicates it very well with verve and humor.

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Yay!

This book is so wonderful! It's a great resource for the novice mycologist with beautiful color photos and detailed descriptions. The best thing about this book is the authors' light-hearted yet knowledgeable approach...more scientists should have this much fun!

An Excellent Hip-Pocket Guide and Nothing More.

I live in Minnesota and I bought this book in December. Obviously, I haven't had a chance to use it for its intended purpose but it looks extremely promising.
I purchased this book because I am highly interested in mushroom hunting and the like. This book is purely a hip-pocket (not hip as in cool, mind you) guide and completely supplementary to another book written by the same author, Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi. All That the Rain Promises does not go into extreme depth on all of the different types of mushrooms, rather it gives you an intimate portrait of each mushroom; where it's found, what it looks like, edibility and often anecdotes about the particular mushroom for the sake of identification purposes are included as well as color photos of mushrooms in their natural habitat. It references Mushrooms Demystified for further reading.
Really, don't buy this book without also buying Mushrooms Demystified. I wouldn't feel comfortable going on a mushroom hunt having simply read this book.

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Great for Beginers!

Wonderful book! I'm no longer a "fungiphobe" hooray! I highly recommend it and it goes great with mushrooms demystified, and fits in my pocket, it's interesting and fun not bland at all like some guides can be. It even gives you good recipes for some of the edibles. Only shows psilocybe semilanceata and psilocybe cyanescens for those who care. Has easy to identify edibles that the book helped me to feel confident about!

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