Dr Nancy J. Turner is professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria and a research associate at the Royal BC Museum. She has written several books and articles on ethnobotany, including two companions to this book: Food Plants of Interior First Peoples and Plant Technology of First Peoples in British Columbia.
Anyone interested in ethnographic, archeological, biogeographical, botanical, and economic aspects of people's relationship with the land, should read this book. Although technically a handbook providing clear and detailed botanical data, its incorporation of concepts involving people's use of plants make this volume more. It breaks new ground in that, unlike many ethnobiological studies that concentrate on food or medicine, this book addresses the understudied technological uses of plants, such as their use in the construction of houses, kitchen utensils, fishing gear, bedding and storage containers. Maria G. Fadiman, Southeastern Geographer Vol. 46
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