Publisher Description

A Field Guide to Edible Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest is a pocket-sized guide with full-colour photographs of mushrooms from Pacific Northwest trails and roadsides, forests and lawns. With this guide, identify over thirty common and easily-recognized edible mushrooms—and stay away from their not-so-edible look-alikes. Discover boletes, chanterelles, matsutake, shaggy mane, cauliflower, candy cap and many other tasty wild mushrooms. Easy to use and light to carry, this compact text is a must-have for all mushroom lovers who delight in searching for the next macrofungi bonanza.

Author Biography

Mushroom expert and environmental consultant Daniel Winkler, M.Sc. is fascinated by mushrooms and their ecology. He grew up collecting wild mushrooms in the Bavarian Alps, and has expanded his knowledge of fungi by researching the role of mushrooms in Tibet, where they are rural Tibet's main source of cash income. He organises mushroom tours, collects and photographs mushrooms in North and South America, as well as all over Europe and Asia. He lives with his family in Kirkland, Washington State, and is a frequent lecturer at mushroom festivals and other mycological events.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations 9 Introduction 11 Stephen Levine WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH 1 What if Germany had destroyed the British navy at the Battle of Jutland in 1916? 232 What if a poet had taken us out of the Great War? 39 3 What if New Zealand had come under Nazi occupation? 594 What if Winston Churchill had visited New Zealand? 775 What if New Zealand troops had not fought in Vietnam? 93WRITERS AND THEIR WORK 6 What if Katherine Mansfield had returned to New Zealand? 1137 What if Samuel Butler had not left New Zealand? 133 8 What if Bill Pearsons novel Coal Flat had kept its homosexual themes? 151MAORI AND THE STATE 9 What if Hone Heke had won the war against the British in the mid-1840s? 17110 What if Governor Grey had not ordered the invasion of the Waikato in July 1863? 183 11 What if the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 had never been passed? 199GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS 12 What if the Great Storm of 1862 had sunk the Cabinet? 21313 What if there had never been a Moyle affair? 233 14 What if New Zealand had reintroduced an upper house? 25315 What if New Zealand had not adopted MMP? 271 LEADING THE WORLD 16 What if women had not won the vote in 1893? 295 17 What if Edmund Hillary had never climbed Mount Everest? 311Epilogue 327 Notes 339 Acknowledgements 379 List of Contributors 383 Appendix Introducing 17 Scenarios: 391 What Really Happened ...

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