Strange Harvests And Obscure Natural Materials From Around The Globe
Cool Science Radio
English - August 29, 2019 16:50 - 27 minutes - 1.6 KB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsEducation Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Cool Science Radio welcomes guest Edward Posnett who has written Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects . Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring us seven wonders of the natural world: eiderdown from Scandinavia, sea silk from Sardinia, vicuña wool and guano from Peru, civet coffee from Indonesia, vegetable ivory from Ecuador, and edible birds’ nests from Borneo.