The Seaweed Collector's Handbook From Purple Nicholas Delbanco created by artist

created by artist

fast-talking black cat

this book is a captivating evocation of a place

several from iwi invaded or attacked during the nineteenth-century New Zealand Wars

The Seaweed Collector's Handbook From Purple Nicholas Delbanco created by artistSeaweed is so familiar and yet its names pepper dulse, sea lettuce, bladderwrack are largely unknown to us. In this 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