Saturday, August 07, 2010

Bargain of the Holiday



Nikolai Ivanovich Orlov, Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms (Moscow, Meditsina 1965). Slightly worrying is the fact that the gazetteer section has been altered by hand (not, thank goodness, by a number of different hands), so that every now and then you read an entry that has annotation as follows: 'This mushroom is, in fact, NOT EDIBLE'.

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