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Book

Strange harvests : the hidden histories of seven natural objects

Call Number

  • 508 P8559 (OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Viking, [2019]

Physical Description

323 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

In this beguiling work Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring seven wonders of the natural world--eiderdown, vicu-a fiber, sea silk, vegetable ivory, civet coffee, guano, and edible birds' nests--that promise ways of using nature without damaging it.out damaging it.

Contents

  • Eiderdown
  • The black nests
  • Civet
  • Sea silk
  • Vicuña
  • Tagua
  • Guano.

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