Food from the Veld : Edible wild plants of Southern Africa (hardcover/new condition)

FIRST EDITION, Delta Books, 1982, hardcover, illustrated, condition: new.

Food from the Veld describes over a thousand wild plants which are known to be eaten in southern Africa, ranging from delicious and highly-prized herbs and fruits to roots and tubers providing food or water during times of famine or in desert areas.
Each plant is botanically identified and described, with its common names in all southern African languages, followed by details of distribution and, finally, what is known about its use which part is eaten, how it is prepared and, when necessary, whether any precautions should be taken.
The extensive combined experience of the authors has made available a truly comprehensive reference to a subject on which knowledge is in real danger of dying out, presented in such a way as to be accessible to the interested layman as well as to the botanist - to anthropologists, nutritionists, ecologists in short, everyone who has an interest in southern Africa's resources and people.

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