WILD FOOD by Ray Mears, Gordon Hillman ( 9780340827918 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

WILD FOOD

By:

Ray Mears, Gordon Hillman

Format:

Paperback

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£16.99

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£12.40

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ISBN 10:

0340827912

ISBN 13:

9780340827918

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Publisher:

HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION

Pub. date:

1 July, 2008

Pages:

272

Description:

Bestselling author and bushcraft expert Ray Mears presents WILD FOOD, the definitive guide to how our hunter-gatherer ancestors found food in the wilds of Britain

Synopsis:

Ray Mears has travelled the world discovering how native people manage to live on just what nature provides. Whats always frustrated him is not knowing how our own ancestors fed themselves and what we could learn about our own diet. We know they were hunter-gatherers, but no-one has been able to tell what they ate day to day. How did they find their calories, week in week out throughout the year? What were their staple foods? Where did they get their vitamins? How did they ensure their bodies received enough variety? In this book he travels back ten thousand years to a time before farming to learn how our ancestors found, prepared and cooked their food. This extraordinary journey reveals many new possibilities many of the same food sources are still there for us if only we know where to look. Through Ray Mears' knowledge of the countryside and the research conducted specially for this book with archaeo-botanist Gordon Hillman, we learn many new, useful and often surprising things about the amazingly rich natural larder that still surrounds us.

Illustrations:

Full colour photographs throughout

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Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

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Returnable

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