Exploring the Traditional Plant Knowledge of Native American Cultures: Daniel E. Moerman's Ethnobotany

k9881: Hard read, plants are listed alphabetically by scientific name. Great info provided just have to look up in back common name to find specific plant I am researching.

United States on Jul 31, 2023

Karina Branco Medeiros: Très utile si tu t’intéresse aux plantes médicinales. C’est une encyclopédie qui va chercher toutes les communautés autochtones et leur usage pour chaque plante.

Canada on Jun 24, 2023

Hefford: Haven’t gone completely through the whole book yet, but it appears to be a VERY in depth and resourceful book for this type of information. Well worth the price, especially for a hardcover.

Canada on Jun 11, 2023

GSGS: Unfortunately the book sent is in terrible condition. The back is completely broken with pages start falling off. The front cover is also damaged and look used. This condition was not advertised anywhere in the product description. For the price paid, this should not happen.
Also, it seems there is no way to contact the seller to replace the product - only option to return, which I am seriously considering. Otherwise, the book content is amazing, but aimed at scientists and researchers rather than average oerson interested in ethnic naturopathyv sing native plants.

United Kingdom on Jan 31, 2023

Faith C. FischerFaith C. Fischer: Tremendous amount of knowledge in one book. This books did not contain photos so you will have to do the work your self to find them.

United States on Jan 08, 2023

Michael Hammor: First off, I bought this digital version because $60 was a bit rich for a book.
There are several issues that are significant.
The formatting is terrible. It seems like they tore the pages out of the book and put them through an OCR scanner and sent the book to Kindle without reviewing, editing, or correcting any misreads. It takes an effort to understand the content past the typos. The Cherokee Indian tribe is constantly referred to as the Herokee.
There are paragraph breaks in odd places and words are hyphenated as though they are continued from a previous line, but they aren't. Page numbers show up in weird places from the OCR scanning of the book pages and should have been removed. Plant names and some sort of reference number show up in weird places and it makes me unsure of which plant I am reading about.

Non-digital issues.
No plant images to aid in proper identification. No descriptions to aid in proper identification. Information on some plants is sorely lacking. Bidens Bipinnata, I have accumulated over a written page of medicinal information regarding this plant, how to prepare it, and how to dose it. This book has two uses, no information on...

United States on Dec 26, 2022

J M: This is an excellent book! Well worth the price of admission. It's well-researched and very thorough. The layout is great and it's easy to find whatever plant, flower, etc., you're looking for. The information on uses are broken down by tribe. This is a very unique book.

Canada on Jul 14, 2022

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Canada on May 16, 2022

Netphax050505Netphax050505: This book is an amazing reference tool! Not only is there a catalog of plants but there are other ways of listing as well. The information has been broken down by each tribe and indexed by usage. There is also an index of common names and synonyms. There are not photographs or drawings of each plant. While that would also have been amazing to have today. The amount of time and effort poured into this book is beyond compare. What is in this reference will make finding photographs or drawings later much easier if or when there is a need. I am very thankful that I decided to purchase this hardcover book because it is worth it. There are 927 pages so keep in mind this is not a light read but a very informative one. My shipment arrived on Time but the way it was boxed caused one corner to become slightly creased. Other than this I am very happy and I will definitely recommend to others.

United States on Apr 11, 2021

Randy J. Mercurio: I can really appreciate this book because I know how much work went into creating it. Although I wish there was more detail about how the plants were used I'm able to cross reference other books to get the information I need. The layout of the book gives you the ability to attack a given plant inquiry from many different perspectives. For example, you can decide you want to know what a particular group of Native Americans did with a specific plant and look up the plant in the main body of the book (Catalog of Plants) and it will summarize the uses by the following categories: drug, food, fiber, dye & other. Then within each of these categories each group of Native American tribe is named with the uses if it applies to them. All of the uses are referenced to the literature (bibliography) giving you the ablity to obtain original articles if desired. From another perspective, you can have an interest in the Cherokee and go to the section "Index of Tribes" which will allow you to look up each of the many specific subcategories of the main categories mentioned above and get the use of specific plants such as under, Drug, the analgesic plant uses. It also contains a list of the...

United States on Dec 12, 2009