FOOD FROM THE VELD: Edible wild plants of Southern Africa - Fox & Norwood Young

1988 A4 size hardcover with dust jacket and 422 pages in very good condition. R60 postage in SA.

Describes over a thousand plants which are known to be eaten in southern Africa , ranging from delicious and highly priced herbs and fruits to roots and tubers . Each food is botaniclly identified  and described , with its common names in all southern Africa languages , followed by details of distribution and what is known about its use - which part is eaten , how it is prepared and when necessary if any precautions are taken . The extensive combined experience of the authors has made available a truly comprehensive reference to a subject on which knowledge is a real danger  of dying out , presented in such a way  as to be accessable to the interested layman as well as to the botanist - to anthropologists , nutritionists , ecologists - in short everyone who has an interest in southen Africa 's resources and people