New Pocket Atlas of the Most Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms.
Dumée, PaulProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019
Rating 3.0- Word count
- 258K words
- Chapters
- 26
Tags
Foreign Language Books Natural Sciences Naturalist ObservationPocket GuideEdible FungiBotanyToxic SpeciesMushroom AtlasScience EnlightenmentWild ForagingIllustrated GuideHand-Drawn IllustrationsSummary
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. Nouvel atlas de poche des champignons Comestibles et Vénéneux les plus répandus. Author: Dumée, Paul. Language: French. Class: QK: Science: Botany. Release Date: Dec 22, 2010Editor's review
Nouvel atlas de poche des champignons Comestibles et Vénéneux les plus répandus is a pocket mushroom guide compiled by the French author Paul Dumée and released as an e-book by Project Gutenberg under botany. The title states that it covers common edible and poisonous mushrooms in a portable illustrated format suited to field comparison and identification. As a historical publication, its value lies in showing how early fungal classification and popular identification knowledge were expressed, and it can also serve as reading material for French botanical texts. It must be stressed that mushroom identification is a matter of food safety: the morphological descriptions and classifications in historical guides may differ from contemporary research, and it must never be used as a basis for foraging. Read it as material for the history of science and language learning, and use it alongside current authoritative guides and professional advice.Who it's for
A good fit for
- Intermediate and advanced French learners who want to read specialized botanical texts
- Readers studying the history of mycology and early popular guidebook compilation
- Natural history enthusiasts interested in French-language natural history publications
Not a good fit for
- Ordinary foragers hoping to use it to pick mushrooms in the wild
- Professional mycologists who need current taxonomy and toxicity data
- Readers with no French reading ability who are unwilling to use reference tools
Reading tips
- Read it as a history-of-science text, focusing on how early guides described morphology and toxicity.
- Compare it with current authoritative mushroom guides and note changes in classification names and identification standards.
- French learners can excerpt descriptive morphological phrasing to build botanical vocabulary.
About the publisher
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FAQ
Can this guide be used to judge whether a mushroom is edible?
No. It is a historical publication whose classification and identification standards may be outdated. Mushroom identification must rely on current authoritative sources and be confirmed by professionals; never forage based on it.Does the book cover only edible mushrooms?
The title specifies both edible and poisonous kinds and covers common species, with the aim of helping readers distinguish them rather than introducing only edible varieties.Can it be read without knowing French?
The text is in French, and reading it with no French at all would be difficult. Dictionaries and image comparison can help, but understanding descriptive details still requires some language foundation.This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.
About the author
Dumée, Paul AuthorPaul Dumée is a foreign author about whose life very little is publicly known; his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly recorded in available sources. What can be confirmed is that he wrote mushroom guides in French. Within the library's holdings, two works appear under his name, both titled Nouvel atlas de poche des champignons Comestibles et Vénéneux les plus répandus, meaning "New Pocket Atlas of the Most Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms." The subject indicates that his writing focused on practical fungal identification. Judging from this topic, the author addressed foragers and nature enthusiasts, seeking to help readers distinguish edible from poisonous species through a portable illustrated guide and thereby reduce the risk of mistaken picking and consumption. Such guides typically combine detailed illustrations with morphological descriptions and emphasize comparative identification, with a practical rather than theoretical orientation. Because public information is limited, details of his life, scholarly standing, and the reception and influence of his works remain difficult to establish; he can currently be characterized only as a compiler of popular mushroom atlases.