They spent the first couple of days on a survival diet, then gradually extended the ways they prepared their foraged foods, introducing certain fundamental substances-salt & cooking oil, for example-that they picked up in country stores. Gibbons, partly by canoe on the Susquehanna River and in part on the Appalachian Trail. The writer tells about a six-day trip, in early Nov., with Mr. Inadvertently, studying edible wild plants for years, he has become an expert on the nourishment aspects of survival in the wilderness. He is not trying to prove anything except that there is a marvellous variety of good food in the world & only a modest part can be found in markets. He is at work on a volume covering every edible plant in N. His first book "Stalking the Wild Asparagus", came out in 1962. All his life has been a forager, becoming in this pursuit an excellent general naturalist. He has been, among other things, a school teacher. He lives & writes in a farmhouse near Troxelville, Pennsylvania. PROFILE of Euell Theophilus Gibbons, who has written 4 books on the gathering & preparation of wild food.
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