Simply Living. A gatherer’s guide to New Zealand’s fields, forests and shores.

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Simply Living. A gatherer’s guide to New Zealand’s fields, forests and shores.Gwen Skinner. The well known guide to the infinite variety of wild foods to be found throughout the country. Many of these foods are not commercially available but were once common in both Maori and European diets. There is also a collection of recipes for beverages, cosmetics, pickling and sprouting. Sixteen colour plates. A pioneering food for free New Zealand classic. First published in 1981. Reed Books, Auckland, 1994. ISBN 9780790002873 Softback.

of the 15 species of Pleione

from the beginnings of European settlement until the early years of the twentieth century

where the author lives

A beautiful book printed on heavy paper

Plants featured include pohutukawa

ISBN 9780790003818

Each plate occupies a whole page

Interesting photogaraphs throughout

painted by Vivian Ward

146 in total

Unwin Hyman Ltd

New boundaries were established and recognised by the Treaty of Waitangi leaving a contentious legacy