The Seaweed Collector's Handbook

A very special, little, cute, moving but splendid book. * Shortlisting for Jan Wolkers Prijs 2018 *a treasure chest filled with fascinating, horizon-widening, mind-expanding curiosities and moments of awe and wonder on every page. Zwambown is an artist-polymath: erudite, wide-ranging and magpie-like. She takes us underwater to a world of iridescence rainbow weed, sea monsters, space algae and world-saving kelp. She opens up the sea for us with an intriguing mixture of cultural and natural history, acute observations and enchanting illustrations and challenges us to slow down and engage in a radical noticing and joy of seeing we all need. I am now completely obsessed by seaweed. – Lucy Jones author of * Losing Eden *

Miek Zwamborn is an artist, novelist, and poet. She lives and works on the Isle of Mull, in the Hebrides, where she runs a project exploring the natural environment, particularly its abundant seaweed, with scientists, designers, and artists.