A Guide to the New Zealand Seashore Dave Gunson, VikingPacific, $19.95 If you can’t be bothered carrying all your seabird, rock pool fish and native plants books down to the beach with you, this book will be a fair substitute.…
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Elusive birds beautifully depicted, Pat Quinn
Moa: The Story of a Fabulous Bird PhilipTemple and Chris Gaskin, Hodder & Stoughton, $11.95 Old Blue: The Rarest Bird in the World Mary Taylor, Ashton Scholastic, $19.95 The South Island ‘sightings’ of the elusive moa provide a timely context…
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Tagged with: Ashton Scholastic, Chris Gaskin, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 10, Mary Taylor, PhilipTemple, Spring 1993
Posted in Children, Natural History, Review
Posted in Children, Natural History, Review
Green thoughts, Judith Dale
The Garden as a Room: Decorating and Furnishing the New Zealand Garden Robin Shafer, Random House, $39.95 The Dry Garden: Gardening with drought-tolerant plants Jane Taylor, Godwit, $59.95 Delights of Floral Languages, Delights of Lavender, Delights of Little Flowers, Delights…
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Tagged with: Godwit, Issue 9, Jane Taylor, Judith Dale, Olive Dunn, Random House, Robin Shafer, Winter 1993
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Fish and Slips, R M McDowall
The Rock Pool Fishes of New Zealand: Te ika aaria o Aotearoa Chris Paulin and Clive Roberts, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, $49.95 This is a beautiful book. For decades, people interested in rock pool fauna and flora…
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Tagged with: Chris Paulin, Clive Roberts, Issue 9, Museum of New Zealand, R M McDowell, Te Papa Tongarewa, Winter 1993
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Miscellany: Short reviews, Dale Williams
Overcoming entomo‑ignorance, Dale Williams
A Houseful of Strangers Patrick Dale, Collins, $19.95 (139 pp) Insects’ lib – the author attempts to defend the smaller occupants of our home environment against what Ruud Kleinpaste calls ‘entomo‑ignorance’. Subtitled ‘Living with the common creatures of the New…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, Collins, Dale Williams, Diggeress Te Kanawa, I A Hood, Issue 7, Olive Dunn, Patrick Dale, Random Century, Summer 1992
Posted in Māori, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Māori, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Unique, fascinating and vulnerable, Alan Mark
Natural History of New Zealand Nic Bishop, Hodder & Stoughton, $59.95 Yet another natural history of New Zealand, I hear you say, but this one is sufficiently different, attractive and up-to-date to appeal to the wide audience that is known…
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Tagged with: Alan Mark, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 7, Nic Bishop, Summer 1992
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Plucking a victim from the wreckage, Tony Collins
The Black Robin: Saving the World’s Most Endangered Bird David Butler and Don Merton, Oxford University Press, $49.95 The story of the black robin’s rescue from the brink of extinction has been told more than once in recent years by…
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Tagged with: David Butler, Don Merton, Issue 7, Oxford University Press, Summer 1992, Tony Collins
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review