Author - Jennifer Isaacs.  For perhaps fifty thousand years the Aboriginal people have lived and lived well, in Australia. They have developed a unique knowledge of native plants and a deep understanding of the value of many animal products. BUSH FOOD is an exploration of these traditional skills and a compendium of the kinds of foods eaten by Aboriginies. It indicates how food is caught or gathered, hunted or picked, how it is prepared and cooked, and what nutritional value it has. It considers, too, the use of natural products in traditional Aboriginal herbal medicine. Illustrated lavishly with specially commissioned photographs, this original and best selling classic will be treasured by all those with a love of the Australian environment and a desire to understand what it can offer to sustain human life.