BOOK - SIMPLY LIVING: A GATHERERS' GUIDE TO NZ's FIELDS, FORESTS AND SHORES
SCARCE IN HARDBACK.
Simply Living by Gwen Skinner is a guide to the infinite variety of wild foods available in New Zealand - greens, roots, berries, wild and cultivated flowers, shoots mushrooms, fungi, lichens, as well as seaweeds and unusual off-the-beach foods.
Sections covering plants fully identified and illustrated, medicines, cosmetics, household hints, home pickling through to wine making. 144 pages with colour and b&w illustrations.
Published by A.H & A.W Reed, 1982. Very good hardback with jacket. No inscriptions or marks to any pages and these are still tight in the binding. Boards are clean and fresh. Dust jacket shows wear to top of spine, also fading on spine and slight fading on cover - see photo. NO rips or tears to dust jacket.
CAN COURIER FOR $8.
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