Simply Living A Gatherer's Guide to New Zealand's Fields, Forests and Shores. By Gwen Skinner
Simply Living: A Gatherer's Guide to New Zealand's Fields, Forests and Shores. By Gwen Skinner.
Publisher: Reed 1993.
Softback, no inscriptions, covers are faded and stained. End-papers are foxed, the back section of the book has had some water damage and some pages are stained and wrinkled at top and fored-edge. The rest of the pages are good. 144pp, illustrated.
Simply Living is a guide to the infinite variety of wild foods available in New Zealand - greens, roots, berries, wild and cultivated flowers, shoots mushrooms, fungi, lichens, as well as seaweeds and unusual off-the-beach foods. Many of these are foods, which are, or were once, commercially available in English, European and Oriental market places, or were once used extensively by our early Maoris and European settlers. Sections covering plants fully identified and illustrated, medicines, cosmetics, household hints, home pickling through to wine making.
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