Desiccated Alimentary Vegetable Substances : Legare Street Press : 9781020509551 : 1020509554 : 18 Jul 2023 : This volume contains the official reports of two Navy boards tasked with investigating the properties and potential uses of desiccated vegetable substances as a source of food for sailors at sea. Filled with detailed scientific analyses and practical recommendations, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the challenges of feeding large crews on long sea voyages. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the