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Harvest by Edward Posnett
Category: Nature
In a centuries-old tradition, farmers in northwestern Iceland scour remote coastal plains for the down of nesting eider ducks. High inside a vast cave in Borneo, men perched atop rickety ladders collect swiftlets' nests, a delicacy believed to be a cure for almost anything. Eiderdown and edible birds' ...Show more
Strange Harvests by Posnett, Edward
Category: Natural History
'An exceptional first book; Harvest is a subtle, fascinating braiding of travel, cultural and natural history... It is a pleasure and an education to journey with him in these pages' ROBERT MACFARLANE In a centuries-old tradition, farmers in north-western Iceland scour remote coastal plains for the dow ...Show more
Strange Harvests - The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects by Edward Posnett
Category: History
" Strange Harvests is] an impressive addition to the modern travelogue, painting some of the world's most remote terrain in visceral and sometimes breathtaking prose . . . an engrossing read." --NPR An original and magical map of our world and its riches, formed of the stories of the small-scale har ...Show more
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