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Outstanding achievement or pitiful war? Janet Hunt
Making a New Land: Environmental Histories of New Zealand Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking (eds) Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781877578526 Making a New Land: Environmental Histories of New Zealand is a revised, expanded and renamed edition of Environmental Histories…
Tagged with: Eric Pawson, Issue 108, Janet Hunt, Otago University Press, Summer 2014, Tom Brooking
Posted in History, Natural History, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Natural History, Review, Sociology
Browsing, squawking and squabbling, Janet Hunt
Moa: The Life and Death of New Zealand’s Legendary Bird Quinn Berentson Craig Potton Publishing, $50.00, ISBN 9781877517846 It’s only 10 years since Richard Wolfe’s paperback Moa: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of a Giant Bird (2003) hit the…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 103, Janet Hunt, Quinn Berentson, Spring 2013
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
The frozen continent, Janet Hunt
Science on Ice: Discovering the Secrets of Antarctica Veronica Meduna Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781869405830 “Visiting this frozen landscape,” writes Veronica Meduna, “is to gain a fresh perspective on our world, almost like going to another planet and looking…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2013, Issue 101, Janet Hunt, Veronica Meduna
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Feathers and fins, Janet Hunt
Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction Alison Ballance Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517273 The Tasman: Biography of an Ocean Neville Peat Penguin Books, $62.00, ISBN 9780143011385 Time was when “non-fiction” meant staid, largely black-and-white books on a…
Tagged with: Alison Ballance, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 94, Janet Hunt, Neville Peat, Penguin Books, Winter 2011
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Felling a forest giant, Janet Hunt
Kauri Keith Stewart Viking, $60.00, ISBN 9780670045525 Keith Stewart’s Kauri is the latest in a succession of publications about this iconic tree, following books by esteemed natural history writers A H Reed, J G Erne Adams, Gordon Ell and others…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Issue 85, Janet Hunt, Keith Stewart, Viking
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Telling it like it is, Brent Southgate
I am an Insect Simon Pollard Reed, $19.95, ISBN 1869487400 The Life-size Guide to New Zealand Wildflowers Andrew Crowe Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0143018477 Pick Up a Pack: a guide to tramping and camping the New Zealand way Keith Olsen Reed,…
Tagged with: Andrew Crowe, Brent Southgate, Issue 63, Janet Hunt, Keith Olsen, Mark Inglis, Penguin, Random House, Reed, Simon Pollard, Spring 2003
Posted in Biography, Children, Literature, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Children, Literature, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
No ordinary poet, Cilla McQueen
Hone Tuwhare. A Biography Janet Hunt Godwit, $49.95, ISBN l 86962 035 6 Tuwhare’s is a Maori voice. A master and lover of his second language, English, he revels in its ample dimensions, exploits its flexibility and universality, questions its…
Tagged with: Cilla McQueen, Godwit, Issue 37, Janet Hunt
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction
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No ordinary son, Janet Hunt and Michael Morrissey
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