On the Wild Side: From the Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers to Postmodern Foraging, Bushcraft and New-Age Nature Seekers

This book is a story about a personal search for the 'natural' and for living 'in nature'. The author is an ethnobotanist who has studied foraging practices in many parts of the world, including Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, China and Laos, as well as experimented with living as a primitive hunter-gatherer in his land in the Polish Carpathians. He describes his own experiences, the lives of various hunter-gatherer groups reported by scientific literature, and stories of friends...