Strange Harvests
The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects
'Exceptional...a subtle, fascinating braiding of travel, cultural and natural history... It is a pleasure and an education to journey with Posnett in these pages' ROBERT MACFARLANEIn a centuries-old tradition, farmers in north-western Iceland scour remote coastal plains for the down of nesting eider ducks. High inside a cast cave in Borneo, men perched on rickety ladders collect swiftlets' nests, a delicacy believed to be a cure for almost anything. These luxury products are two of the seven natural wonders whose stories Harvest tells: eiderdown, vicuña wool, sea silk, vegetable ivory, civet coffee, guano and edible birds' nests. It follows…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4735-8424-2
- EAN: 9781473584242
- Produktnummer: 34500575
- Verlag: Random House
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'846 KB
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Edward Posnett
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