Wild Food - Softcover

Ray Mears; Gordon Hillman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340827912 ISBN 13: 9780340827918

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Paperbacks, 2008

Synopsis

Ray Mears has travelled the world discovering how native people manage to live on just what nature provides. Whats always frustrated him is not knowing how our own ancestors fed themselves and what we could learn about our own diet.

We know they were hunter-gatherers, but no-one has been able to tell what they ate day to day. How did they find their calories, week in week out throughout the year? What were their staple foods? Where did they get their vitamins? How did they ensure their bodies received enough variety?

In this book he travels back ten thousand years to a time before farming to learn how our ancestors found, prepared and cooked their food.

This extraordinary journey reveals many new possibilities many of the same food sources are still there for us if only we know where to look. Through Ray Mears' knowledge of the countryside and the research conducted specially for this book with archaeo-botanist Gordon Hillman, we learn many new, useful and often surprising things about the amazingly rich natural larder that still surrounds us.

About this title

Review:

Ray Mears is a bushman first and foremost and really can survive in any extreme environment. I can't think of a better companion in a crisis. (Tim Lewis, GQ)

If Ray Mears isn't a Great Living Englishman, then goodness me, who is? The man is great, and he doesn't even begin to know how great he is. (The Times Magazine)

Book Description:

Bestselling author and bushcraft expert Ray Mears presents WILD FOOD, the definitive guide to how our hunter-gatherer ancestors found food in the wilds of Britain

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0340827912
• ISBN 13: 9780340827918
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300