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Title: CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference by Timothy Johnson, Tim Johnson ISBN: 0-8493-1187-X Publisher: CRC Press Pub. Date: 11 December, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $189.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Big book, essential resource, but VERY short on words
Comment: I'm not unhappy that I bought this book, however it wasn't what I expected.

This is NOT a book with anecdotes or stories or any sort of written description about any plant. It is instead a massive database dump of thousands of plants along with a standard mini-suite of information for each of them: other names, where found, what its used for, etc. This information is presented in a non-reading friendly, compact manner.

This is strictly a reference book and not intended for actual reading or browsing. It is valuable for conducting research IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER RESOURCES - the web, other texts, etc. I could see it being used effectively as a cross reference for finding leads/keywords to be used to track down more information about a given plant/malady/location, etc. elsewhere.

Indispensable, but not standalone.

Rating: 5
Summary: single text survery of medicinal plants
Comment: An excellent encyclopedic database of the reported ethno-pharmacological and medicinal applications of a vast array of medicinal plants. Medical and dental problem organization provided in index, with the listing of the common and taxonomical names for plants, reported medical/dental applications within purported cultural and regional environments. No plant drawings or pictures available for cross reference but this publication remains an excellent "one text" reference for a rapid review of known world wide medicinal plants.