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Edward Posnett

Strange Harvests: Giving and Taking from the Natural World

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An original and magical map of our world and its riches, formed of the stories of the small-scale harvests of seven natural objectsIn this beguiling book, Edward Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring us seven wonders of the natural world-eiderdown, edible birds' nests, civet coffee, sea silk, vicuña fiber, vegetable ivory, and guano-that promise ways of using nature without damaging it. To the rest of the world these materials are mere commodities, but to their harvesters they are imbued with myth, tradition, folklore, and ritual, and form part of a shared identity and history.Strange Harvests follows t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-399-56280-8
  • EAN: 9780399562808
  • Produktnummer: 34458026
  • Verlag: Penguin Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.5 cm x D2.3 cm 236 g
  • Gewicht: 236

Über den Autor


Edward Posnett was born in London. After a spell working in financial services, he started writing about nature, markets, and trade. His fascination with the Icelandic tradition of eiderdown harvesting led him to write Eiderdown, winner of the Bodley Head/Financial Times Essay Prize, and sparked this first book. He lives in Philadelphia.Author Residence: Philadelphia, PA

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