Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand - Softcover

Andrew Crowe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143019228 ISBN 13: 9780143019220

Publisher: Penguin, 2004

Synopsis

This New Zealand classic has remained in print (and continually updated) for almost 40 years, selling over 40,000 copies courtesy of four different publishers. The book, now in its 24th printing, is "based on the experiences of the author whose interest in the subject lead him to spend 10 days in the bush in February 1974 without any food supplies... [It] has deservedly become an enduring classic from an author who is fast becoming one of our most prolific writers on native plants."
Mike Oates, Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture

"The story of how he was inspired to write the book is almost as intriguing as the revelations about his 190 chosen plants. Suffice to say, it involved some hungry, testing times in the wild and, at the very least, a couple of knowledgeable mentors... a possible life-saver."
Weekend Gardener, Issue 152, 2004.

As Brando Yelavich of Wildboy fame (Penguin 2015) explains: "armed with a crossbow, a copy of Andrew Crowe’s Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand and a 35kg pack loaded with the essentials of survival, [he] headed off... to become the first person to successfully circumnavigate New Zealand’s rugged coastline on foot."

The survival manual he took for this impressive adventure is a guide to New Zealand's native edible plants, that describes over 190 trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and seaweeds, giving detailed information on which part is edible and when, how plants have been utilised, particularly by Maori, their nutritional value, and where they can be found.

About this title

About the Author

Andrew Crowe is a bestselling author with a special interest in helping make nature accessible to beginners of all ages. He has written over 40 nature books covering seashells, insects, spiders, birds and other animals and plants. Andrew has won numerous New Zealand book awards, including the Margaret Mahy Medal in 2009 for his overall contribution to children's literature and the Ashton Wylie Award in 2005 for a biography for teenagers on the Dalai Lama. His latest book, Pathway of the Birds, simultaneously published in NZ by Bateman and in the US by University of Hawaii Press 2018), explores The Voyaging Achievements of Māori and their Polynesian Ancestors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143019228
• ISBN 13: 9780143019220
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192