Wild Food
Wild Food
A bushcraft expert and an archaeobotanist reconstruct how hunter-gatherers ate: roots, nuts, seeds, greens and fungi, and how to process them, including plants that need preparation to be safe.
- Why it's here
- How people in Britain lived from wild food, tested in practice.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Edition
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
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