A handful of crushed pennyroyal rubbed on exposed skin will keep mosquitoes away. A half-cup of violet-leaf greens has as much Vitamin C as four oranges. Lemonade flavored with a jigger of borage juice is an especially cooling drink. The roots of Queen Anne’s lace will do for a meal in an emergency. That insatiable stalker of the wildlings, Euell Gibbons, has been out hunting again.

– Joan Lee Faust, The New York Times Book Review

The author of Stalking the Healthful Herbs brings to our attention in a delightful fashion many of the culinary and medicinal herbs native to North America—kinds that were well known to the Indians and early settlers. His intimate knowledge of these plants is based on countless field studies as well as on painstaking research. One clearly gets the feeling that he writes of what he knows and of what he has learned from endless experience and experiment.

– Elizabeth C. Hall, The New York Botanical Garden

The author of Stalking the Wild Asparagus and Stalking the Blue-Eyed Scallop explores the nutritional, medicinal, and useful elements of wild herbs and plants. His search took him into the field, the kitchen [and] into the laboratory at Pennsylvania State University, where nutritionists analyzed food values in plants he brought them.

– Phoebe-Lou Adams, The Atlantic Monthly