However, you won’t be able to directly get the Leather from them. Instead, you’ll first need to get their Hides and then you can turn those into Leather at a Tanning Station. It's worth noting ...

Steinunn Gunnsteinsdóttir admits that it took her family more than a few attempts to be able to make leather from fish skins. "The first 200 times we just made smelly fish soups," she says.

Clinging to survival with his wife Margaret and their seven children, Breen described the harsh winter weather, the leather hides they resorted to eating, and the deaths of their traveling companions.

The substances, known as tannins, will naturally bind to the collagen proteins in a hide, turning it into leather as we know it. Just as they do for trees, the tannins protect hides being turned ...