Paul E Minnis, Robert Freedman

Broschiertes Buch

Plants for Desperate Times

The Diversity of Life-Saving Famine Foods

Beschreibung

Famines and other serious food shortages have been one of the scourges faced by humanity for millennia. Plants for Desperate Times is an introduction to the diversity of plant foods that have saved millions of lives during lethal food shortages. The work highlights one hundred plants.

Autor

Paul E. Minnis is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma now living in Tucson, Arizona, where he is a visiting scholar in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Famine Foods: Plants We Eat to Survive, and numerous articles. Robert L. Freedman received a BA in Oriental studies and cultural anthropology from the University of Arizona. In 1996, Freedman created The Famine Foods Database, which is hosted by Purdue University’s New Crops website.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 138mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9780816553754
• ISBN-10: 0816553750
• Artikelnr.: 70338984