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The Seaweed Collector's Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail by Miek Zwamborn -
The Seaweed Collector's Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail by Miek Zwamborn -
The Seaweed Collector's Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail by Miek Zwamborn -
The Seaweed Collector's Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail by Miek Zwamborn -
The Seaweed Collector's Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail by Miek Zwamborn
The Seaweed Collector's Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail by Miek Zwamborn
The Seaweed Collector's Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail by Miek Zwamborn
The Seaweed Collector's Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail by Miek Zwamborn

The Seaweed Collector's Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail by Miek Zwamborn

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A beautifully illustrated little book that will open your eyes at the seaside. Seaweed is so familiar and yet its names - pepper dulse, sea lettuce, bladderwrack - are largely unknown to us. The Seaweed Collector's Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail by Miek Zwamborn is a short, exquisitely illustrated portrait.

The Dutch poet and artist Miek Zwamborn shares her discoveries of its history, culture and use, from the Neolithic people of the Orkney Islands to sushi artisans in modern Japan. Seaweed troubled Columbus on his voyages across the Atlantic, intrigued von Humboldt in the Sargasso Sea and inspired artists from Hokusai to Matisse.

Covering seaweed's collection by Victorians, its adoption into fashion and dance and its potential for combating climate change, and with a fabulous series of recipes based around the 'truffles of the sea', this is a wonderful gift for every nature lover's home.

  • Paperback
  • 192 pages
  • Dimensions: ‎13.5 x 2 x 19 cm

Part of our  Christmas gifts range. Discover our festive themes this year: stars, under the sea, and Christmas in Greenwich! 

A very special, little, cute, moving but splendid book. ― Shortlisting for Jan Wolkers Prijs 2018

About the Author
Miek Zwamborn is an artist, novelist and poet. She lives and works on the Isle of Mull, in the Hebrides, where she runs a project working to explore the natural environment - and particularly its bountiful seaweed - with scientists, designers and artists.

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