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Strange Harvests - Giving and Taking from the Natural World (Paperback)
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Strange Harvests - Giving and Taking from the Natural World (Paperback)
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An original and magical map of our world and its riches, formed of
the stories of the small-scale harvests of seven natural objects In
this beguiling book, Edward Posnett journeys to some of the most
far-flung locales on the planet to bring us seven wonders of the
natural world--eiderdown, edible birds' nests, civet coffee, sea
silk, vicuna fiber, vegetable ivory, and guano--that promise ways
of using nature without damaging it. To the rest of the world these
materials are mere commodities, but to their harvesters they are
imbued with myth, tradition, folklore, and ritual, and form part of
a shared identity and history. Strange Harvests follows the
journeys of these uncommon products from some of the most remote
areas of the world to its most populated urban centers, drawing on
the voices of the people and little-known communities who harvest,
process, and trade them. Blending history, travel writing, and
interviews, Posnett sets these human stories against our changing
economic and ecological landscape. What do they tell us about
capitalism, global market forces, and overharvesting? How do local
microeconomies survive in a hyperconnected world? Is it possible
for us to live together with different species? Strange Harvests
makes us see the world with wonder, curiosity, and new concern.
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